After someone dies, the questions can sometimes become: who is allowed to live in their house? While the answer may be more straightforward for married spouses or for houses owned in joint tenancy, for example, that may not always be the case for common law spouses where legal title to the deceased person’s house was […]
In October 2023, my colleague Karen Watters wrote about the addition of section 21.1(1) to the Succession Law Reform Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.26 (the “SLRA”). Section 21.1(1) provides the Court with the power to validate a will or a document as valid and fully effective even if it does not comply with the regular
When executing a power of attorney for property, a person is free to choose whoever they want to act as their attorney for property when the time comes. However, it can sometimes be the case where a person’s named attorney for property, even their own family, take advantage of their position of power, and begin
When executing a Will, one of the requirements is that two different people witness the testator sign the Will and then sign the will themselves as witnesses. This seems fairly straightforward, right? For example, where someone uses a lawyer to assist them with drafting their Will and visits the lawyer’s office to execute the Will,
This blog will act as a “part 2” to Joanna Lindenberg’s previous blog post about contempt orders found here, and will serve as a broad overview on punishments for civil contempt. When someone does find themselves in the ill-advised position of being cited or declared as in contempt of Court for disobeying a Court Order
