Considering Cohabitation Agreements – Vancouver Family Law Lawyers
At the Kushner Law Group, we handle various types of estate litigation and family law litigation claims on a regular basis. In some ways, these two practice areas intersect as they often deal with disputes that can be grounded in family dynamics. One of the common threads throughout many of these cases is that much of the acrimony, and cost, …Read more →
Removing Executor for Conflict of Interest Vancouver Estate Litigation Lawyers
Executors are critical cogs in the machinery of administering an estate. An issue that often arises in the context of Estate litigation is when a beneficiary would like to see an executor removed. Courts are reluctant to remove executors solely at the whim or request of a beneficiary in order to respect the principle of testamentary intent. However, there are …Read more →
Curing Deficiencies in Wills With WESA – Part 2
In part 1 of this blog series, we began discussing the case of Skopyk Estate, 2017 BCSC 2335 where the British Columbia Supreme Court was asked to consider an application under s. 58 of the Wills Estates and Succession Act (“WESA”) to determine if an unsigned handwritten document of the Deceased had sufficient testamentary intent to revoke or alter a …Read more →