19 November 2019 TAGS: Discussion Q&A with Kavina Nagrani, JD, TEP We caught up with estate lawyer and longtime NoticeConnect advisor Kavina Nagrani this month.
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.
24 June 2019 TAGS: Case Law Case Brief - Testamentary Capacity and Early Stage Dementia In Kay v Kay Sr, 2019 ONSC 3166, Maranger J considered a will challenge where the testator executed a will at age 89, while in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
18 July 2018 TAGS: Discussion Three Reasons Why Alberta Needs Online Notices to Claimants NoticeConnect makes it easy and inexpensive for estate trustees to advertise for creditors by letting them post notices online rather than in print papers. Our court-approved platform is now the standard practice in Ontario. Can estate practitioners in Alberta use us too?.
27 June 2018 TAGS: Discussion Newspaper closures highlight the need for online notice Postmedia announced today that it is closing six newspapers in Ontario and Alberta and ending printing for another three. These closures are in addition to the dozens of papers closed
18 June 2018 TAGS: Case Law How long do surviving spouses have to choose between the FLA and SLRA regimes? In Aquilina v Aquilina (2018 ONSC 3607), S.F. Dunphy J. explains when it is appropriate to extend the statutory deadline by which a surviving spouse must elect between equalization under the Family Law Act vs the Succession Law Reform Act.
20 April 2018 TAGS: Company Updates "Estate Law 2.0" Event Recap Thank you to everyone who came out last night to Estate Law 2.0, our joint CPD event with Lexis Nexis Canada.