Written by Robin K. Aitken, TEP. “Everything to each other, and if we both go, to the kids”. Sound familiar? Estate planning is actually far more complicated than this. For PEI residents, when preparing for your estate planning meeting with one of our lawyers, there are a number of things to consider. The checklist below […]
Security for costs is a remedy available to parties defending a claim where, if they were successful in defending the claim, they would fact undue difficulty in collecting a costs award made against the unsuccessful claimant.
In our blog post of September 4, 2018, we identified what we viewed as an improper application by the Probate Registry of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador of subsection 4(3) of the provincial Services Charges Act when it comes to the statutory fee charged on the filing of updated or amended estate Inventories […]