Certified Specialist in Estates & Trusts Law
You can benefit from my more than thirty years of experience. Get legal advice from a Toronto lawyer who is a Certified Specialist in Estates and Trusts law.
Here is a sample of the type of estate work I can help you with:
Estate Executors
- help protect executors/estate trustees from liability
- handle claims from beneficiaries and creditors
- deal with accounting, trust and tax issues
- probate the will and distribute assets
- sell or transfer real estate under a will
- explain your duties as executor
- executor compensation issues
- obtain directions from court, when necessary
- removing an executor
- preparing a house for an estate sale
- advising clients regarding responsibilities with real estate
- resolving disputes over inherited real estate
Contesting a Will
- explain your rights as a beneficiary
- make support claims if you are a dependant
- help with family law election claims for married spouses
- make claims for common-law spouses
- claims of lack of testamentary capacity
- commence court proceedings to freeze an estate
- interpretation issues under a will
- provide legal advice for lawyers, attorneys and executors
- challenging marriage contract, separation agreements
- constructive trust claims to jointly owned property
- contested insurance policy claims
- defending or attacking gifts of jointly-owned property
Estate Mediation
- power of attorney disputes
- partition and sale of real estate
- guardianship disputes
- issues of competency and capacity
- challenges to a will or power of attorney
Estate Planning
- preparing an estate plan
- making a will that works
- powers of attorney for property or health care
- probate tax reduction strategies
- advising on the proper choice of executors/guardians
- dealing with special needs beneficiaries
- wealth transfer issues
Read my Welcome Memo and contact my law firm to arrange for a consultation or appointment to review your needs.
