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CRA Collections: Dealing With Some of the Myths

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As a trustee or executor of an estate, you may find yourself managing existing or future tax disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) and the collections department of the CRA at the same time. In a blog written by Peter Aprile of Countertax Lawyers entitled the Canada Revenue Agency Collection Department & Paying Tax Debts in dispute, some issues and related myths were addressed which you may find useful….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Executors, Passing Of Trustees’ and Executors’ Accounts, Tax Issues, Trustee, Trustee Disputes, Trusts, Wills

Millions of Wills now online at Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com Inc. (“Ancestry”), based in Utah, is the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world. In addition, subsidiaries operate in many European countries and also in Australia and Canada. A great many public records are made available through Ancestry, including: birth, death and marriage; census and voter lists; and military. Added to this immense volume of information, millions of U.S. Wills are now available at the site. (No news on….

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Memorial Jewellery – From Ashes to Diamonds?

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After cremation, most people think of ashes being “sprinkled”, held in an urn or interred. Many companies are advertising different options in the form of “Memorial Jewellery”, and one has developed a method of creating diamonds that are purportedly “molecularly identical to naturally occurring diamonds” from cremated remains…..

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Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Funeral Planning, Interest, Wills

Interrelation of Family Law and Estate Planning

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With many couples, one or both spouses have had previous marriages or common law relationships. For many reasons, these couples’ estate planning instructions are not usually the traditional “all to my spouse with a gift over to my issue”, and clients should understand how their estat planning decisions may be impacted by family law…..

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Capacity Law, Estate Planning, Family Conflict, Power of Attorney, Property, Spouse, Wills

AVOIDING PROBATE FEES WITH A POWER OF ATTORNEY?

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Much has been written about probate fee avoidance. Can you with a power of attorney engage in probate fee avoidance on behalf of a testator whose estate may be subject to probate fees?
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Capacity Law, Contested wills, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Planning, Executors, Guardianship, Joint Tenancy, Power of Attorney, Powers Of Attorney and Guardianship Disputes, Probate Tax, Property, Wills
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