April 2016

The Clock Ran Out On This Will Challenge

Limitations statutes can be unforgiving. One dairy farmer learned this lesson in Reid et al. v Reid; Reid v Reid et al., 2016 ONSC 2098, when his will challenge was dismissed for being commenced out of time. Barry and Robert are brothers. Their parents, Walter and Mary, operated a dairy farm which was held by a family corporation (the parents each held 46.5% of the shares; the children each held….

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Contested wills, Estate Litigation, Executors, Family Conflict, Trustee, Wills

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Last week, along with my associates Teresa Acs and Holly Allardyce, I attended an event presented by law firm WeirFoulds, titled Mind Over Matter: Living with a Healthy Brain. The session featured two “members” of the Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI). WBHI is a charitable non-profit with a mandate to “provide education and fund research to combat brain aging diseases that affect women”. Lynn Posluns is the Founder, President and….

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