Hull on Estates

This week on Hull on Estates, Natalia Angelini and Doreen So discuss Deborah Petch's paper, "Safe Practices: Reducing the 'Risky Business' Factor", which was presented at The Six-Minute Estates Lawyer OBA conference on May 3, 2016".

This week on Hull on Estates, Paul Trudelle and Stuart Clark discuss contemporaneous capacity assessments. For a link to the paper by Dr. Kenneth Shulman discussed in the podcast, please click here http://bit.ly/1TgJCnl.

This week on Hull on Estates, Noah Weisberg and David Morgan Smith provide a general discussion on insurance policies in the context of estate litigation.

This week on Hull on Estates, Jonathon Kappy and Umair Abdul Qadir discuss the Court of Appeal’s recent comments on independent legal advice in Donis v Georgopoulos, 2016 ONCA 194 (http://bit.ly/1qLCSqL), where an inter vivos transfer was challenged on the basis of undue influence. Read more about the Court’s decision on our blog. (http://bit.ly/1RYCGi3)

This week on Hull on Estates, Natalia Angelini and Lisa Haseley discuss estate planning techniques for reducing probate fees and the pitfalls.

This week on Hull on Estates, Paul Trudelle and Nick Esterbauer discuss recent developments in the prohibition against physician-assisted death, including the exemption granted by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice last month in A.B. v. Canada (Attorney General). (http://bit.ly/1RILY06)

This week on Hull on Estates, Jonathon Kappy and Noah Weisberg discuss the duties trustees owe to beneficiaries as it relates to the rule in Saunders v Vautier.

This week on Hull on Estates, Jonathon Kappy and Stuart Clark discuss the Court of Appeal’s recent decision of Neuberger v. York, 2016 ONCA 191, and the inquisitorial role of the court in the context of a will challenge, and the applicability of the doctrines of estoppel by convention and estoppel by representation in a will challenge.

This week on Hull on Estates, Natalia Angelini and Umair Abdul Qadir discuss the Court of Appeal’s recent ruling in Spence v BMO Trust Company, 2016 ONCA 196 (http://bit.ly/1RJfrnR). The Court of Appeal overturned the controversial decision of the Superior Court of Justice, where the Court had set aside the deceased’s Will because it was contrary to public policy based on extrinsic evidence.Read more about the Court of Appeal’s decision on our blog (http://bit.ly/225PtlP), and don’t miss our previous podcast on the lower court decision (http://bit.ly/1RZAHID)

This week on Hull on Estates, Paul Trudelle and Doreen So discuss how a bequest to a witness may be void and who should not be a witness to the execution of a Power of Attorney.