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After 15 years of collaboration and 2,700 contributions, we have refreshed the All About Estates website to better reflect the platform’s scale, longevity, and ongoing use, and to ensure its presentation aligns with the experience and credibility of the collaborative community behind it. Supporting a Growing Body of Work Over the past 15 years, All About Estates has grown into a substantial professional resource, with more than 2,700 blog posts….

A court’s authority to make certain orders or decisions is not always founded in legislation or established case law. In the right circumstances, the court may find its authority from its inherent jurisdiction to do certain things, such as preventing abuse of process, controlling procedure, or protecting vulnerable parties. One such example is the parens patriae jurisdiction, which is founded on necessity and the need to act for the protection of those….

Section 6 of the Ontario Substitute Decisions Act (SDA) sets out: “A person is incapable of managing property if the person is not able to understand information that is relevant to making a decision in the management of his or her property, or is not able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision.” In F.L. v. Oliver, 2024 ONSC 478 the Ontario Superior Court….