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Throughout 2024 and into early 2025, the Courts released many riveting and groundbreaking decisions that have had an echoing effect throughout the estate litigation world. This blog will detail 5 of those decisions and cover a variety of topics and issues relevant to estate litigation and planning. A second blog acting as a “Part II” detailing other important decisions will be coming soon to a blog website near you. Tessaro….

In the recent decision of The Estate of Joan R. McAteer, deceased, 2025 ONSC 1197, the Court outlined an attorney for property’s fiduciary obligations to account to the beneficiaries of the incapable person’s estate upon their death. When John Joseph McAteer died, attorneys for property managed the assets of his incapacitated wife, Joan McAteer, until her death. Following Joan’s death, their son, also called John McAteer, brought an application to….