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The Slayer Law in Canada Part II: Beneficiaries Gone Bad

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This Blog was written by: Alicia Mossington (Godin), Estate and Trust Consultant, Scotia Wealth Management  In December this author wrote about the common law forfeiture laws, colloquially known as “Slayer Law”, which precludes an individual from deriving a benefit from their own “morally culpable conduct.” In the context of the testator-beneficiary relationship, a beneficiary who is found to have caused the unlawful death of a testator will be deemed at common law….

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Fake Evidence in the Era of Fake News

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Today’s blog was written by Tyler Lin, student-at-law at de VRIES LITIGATION LLP Widespread embrace of social media has brought text messages, e-mails, and postings to the forefront of evidence in criminal, civil and family law disputes. These sources are supposed to allow judges to glean insight into the life and deeds of the disputing parties. However, in this era of “fake news,” technologies have developed that make it easier….

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Credibility, Estate Litigation, Family Conflict, In the News, Spouse

More Than The Monday Blues….

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Friday, January 29, 2021 was ‘Bell Let’s Talk’ day and I forgot to tweet about it.   This is very surprising for me so I am reminding those of you who might have missed it as well.  Most of us are talking much more about good mental health and the toll that Covid has taken on our wellbeing. This year, Bell Canada had 159,173,435 interactions from people tweeting, calling, posting on….

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Can You Preserve Your Tattoos After Your Death?

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Introduction Last year, I wrote a blog post about estate planning for tattoo artists, which focused primarily on the intellectual property rights of tattoo artists in their tattoo designs and the ways in which such rights conflict with the rights of the people who actually bear such designs on their skin.[1] In response to my post, I received an interesting article about the developing technique of post-death tattoo preservation.[2] The….

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Estate Administration, Estate Donations, Estate Planning, Executors, Family Conflict, Funeral Planning, In the News, Trustee

Estate Planning Lessons from “The Dutch House”

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The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, is an excellent read. However, for those in the estate planning profession, it is also a reflection on what goes wrong when insufficient or no estate planning occurs…..

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COVID-19 Update: No Adjournment of Virtual Trial

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I previously blogged about Chief Justice Morawetz’s new Notice to the Profession (effective December 29, 2020) that that all non-jury matters shall proceed virtually unless it is absolutely necessary for the matter to be conducted in person. This Notice to the Profession has now been applied in Flying E. Ranche Ltd. v. Attorney General of Canada, 2020 ONSC 8072 where the court refused to adjourn a complex trial, instead directing….

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