29 July 2019 TAGS: Estates Five Elderly Fraud Scams to Watch Out For There is sometimes a more sinister reason for people not passing down their wealth - it has been taken from them by scammers.
22 July 2019 TAGS: Estates Estate Plans of the Rich and Famous Here are five billionaires with philanthropic estate plans.
12 June 2019 TAGS: Wills Estate Planning in Ancient Egypt Writing a will ensures that you have a say over how your estate is handled after you die. This is nothing new. The oldest known will was created in Ancient Egypt.
7 June 2019 TAGS: Estates Where to Store Your Will When thinking of where to store your will, it is important that you think of storing it in a secure place that will be safe from fire, water damage and theft.
27 May 2019 TAGS: Will Registry How to Register Your Wills Once you've enabled access to the Canada Will Registry, you're ready to start registering your wills. In this blog post we go through how you can register your records individually or all at once.
27 May 2019 TAGS: Will Registry How to Get Started with the Canada Will Registry It's easy to get set up on NoticeConnect's Canada Will Registry. In this blog, we go through the steps to get started.
26 April 2019 TAGS: Discussion What Happens When a Will is Lost or Destroyed Wills are required to legally administer the estate and should be kept somewhere safe (typically, in a safety deposit box at a bank, at the client’s lawyer’s office, or, a secure location at home).
15 April 2019 Revocation of Wills Wills, by nature are revocable. In essence, testators have the freedom to change their mind about their testamentary dispositions. All they have to do is make a new Will.
9 April 2019 TAGS: Estates Photocopies of wills The general rule for probating a will is that you must submit the original will to the court. You simply cannot send a photocopy of the will to the court as if it were an original.
4 April 2019 TAGS: Wills Marriage and the Revocation of Wills If you have executed a will before getting married in Ontario, it is automatically revoked upon marriage. This means, the entire will is invalid. One way to avoid this is to make a will in contemplation of marriage.
27 March 2019 TAGS: Company Updates Case Study - Publishing a Notice to Creditors on NoticeConnect Protected this Client from a Five-Figure Debt Advertising for creditors on NoticeConnect.com protected this lawyer's client from a five-figure debt.
25 March 2019 TAGS: Wills Electronic Wills For many decades, the formalities associated with wills have undergone little modification. With the rise of technology and the use of apps for just about everything, the rise of unforeseen circumstances for probate courts to confront is a new reality.
15 March 2019 TAGS: Estates Does Every Will Need to be Probated? Generally, a personal representative, or executor, must probate the Will of the deceased. This means it is the executor’s responsibility to prove in court that the Will meets all the legal requirements.
12 March 2019 TAGS: Estates Testamentary Capacity - Who can make a will? In the majority of will challenges, testamentary capacity is often the main issue of the case. Will drafting lawyers are strongly encouraged to determine their client’s mental capacity for the purposes of signing a Will.
8 March 2019 TAGS: Estates Do Millennials Need Wills? How young is too young to make a will? Probably younger than you think.
14 February 2019 TAGS: Discussion The top three strangest wills Some people think creating a will is a solemn occasion - a way of staring down one’s own mortality and acknowledging that nothing lasts forever. Others, by contrast, have taken it upon themselves to make their wills as eccentric and unique as they were in life.
8 February 2019 TAGS: Discussion Millions worth of Bitcoin inaccessible because of a lost password Investors of the Canadian cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX are left disgruntled and worried after the co-founder and CEO, Gerald Cotten, died. You may be wondering why this is an important story for those of you who are in the business of estates. Well, let’s break it down.
10 January 2019 TAGS: Company Updates A Conversation with the Attorney General NoticeConnect founder Patrick Hartford had the opportunity yesterday to chat with Ontario's Attorney General, the Hon. Caroline Mulroney, at the Legal Innovation Zone in downtown Toronto.
30 November 2018 TAGS: Discussion What We're Reading For those of us here at NoticeConnect, we like to keep on top of the latest estate news and issues so we don’t lose touch with what’s most important to our clients.
28 November 2018 TAGS: Company Updates New NoticeConnect Account Features We've deployed two new features to make your NoticeConnect account more powerful. You can now save draft notices and return to them later. And you can also access your order and billing history, and download copies of receipts or invoices, directly from your account.
7 November 2018 TAGS: Estates Make A Will Month Every year, the Ontario Bar Association makes it their mission to educate Canadians on the importance of having a will by hosting free events across Ontario.
5 October 2018 TAGS: Estates Five Pets that Inherited Big Money What happens to your pets after you die? It has become increasingly common for people to set up trusts for their furry friends to make sure they’re being well taken care of after their owners have passed on.
17 September 2018 TAGS: Estates TLA to Distribute NoticeConnect's Knowledge of a Will Notices Our Knowledge of a Will notices ask the legal community if anyone has or knows about a particular will. We're proud to announce that the Toronto Lawyers Association will be distributing these notices to its members.
29 August 2018 TAGS: Discussion Your Top 3 Questions Answered In an effort to save you time, we've pulled the top three most-asked questions about NoticeConnect together to answer them for you here.
5 July 2018 TAGS: Company Updates Partnership Announcement with Emergent NoticeConnect is happy to announce our partnership with Emergent, Canada’s largest innovator of document creation and file management software.
