Having a properly drafted will and powers of attorney is important. Making sure that your executor and/or beneficiaries know where they are? Almost equally important.
Here’s a reason to have a will if you live in Cornwall: there, if you die without a will, your entire estate goes to the
It’s a very poorly known fact, but in Ontario, your executor becomes the owner of your body at the moment of your death. Morbid, yes.
There is a very well-known case in Ontario called Banton v. Banton. In that case, an elderly man married a waitress in his long-term care
Garry Wise over at the Wise Law Blog posted last week about a very strange estate: that of an informal zookeeper, Karel Fortyn, who ran