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Estate Dispute Case: Changing an Unfair Will

March 3, 2020
Broadley Andrew and Austin Darling
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Unfair Wills, Wills and Estates

A recent case brought in the BC Supreme Court involved unfair wills with an estate distributed unequally amongst sons and daughters. The case of Grewal v. Litt (2019) involved six children and their parents’ mirror wills which were drafted to…

Helping those unfairly disinherited: Estate law blogs – now translated into Chinese

We’re pleased to post five of our estate litigation blogs in Chinese! These blogs cover undue influence, reasons to challenge an unfair will, who has standing to challenge a will, and the remedies available to those who have been unjustly…

Estate Law Video Blogs in English, Punjabi & Hindi: Helping those Unfairly Disinherited

May 3, 2018
Darren Williams
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Unfair Wills, Wills and Estates

Can those unfairly disinherited challenge a will in BC? Many people in British Columbia discover that they have been unfairly excluded from an estate by their spouse or their parent. Often, the reasons given for the exclusion are unfair or…

Fixing a Broken Will – What can the court do?

February 20, 2017
Matthew Melnyk
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Estate Planning, Legal FAQs, Unfair Wills, Wills and Estates

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog on the law. In past video blogs, we’ve talked about reasons why people challenge wills. Undue influence and unfairness are two common reasons. A third reason is that the will does not meet…

Disinheritance: That’s It – You’re Out of the Will!

January 31, 2017
Broadley Andrew
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Legal FAQs, Unfair Wills, Wills and Estates

Reasons for disinheritance must be both true and rational This week we’ll discuss some of the reasons, some understandable, some much less so, and completely bizarre, that have driven parents to disinherit their children. As we have touched on in other…

Undue influence: When will-makers are persuaded to disinherit

January 24, 2017
Matthew Melnyk
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Legal FAQs, Unfair Wills, Wills and Estates

Undue influence: grounds for an estate dispute One of the reasons people challenge or dispute a will in British Columbia, is that the will was either prepared or signed as a result of unreasonable interference, or undue influence, by another…

Disinherited? Reasons a BC estate can or should be challenged? (Video Blog)

Good reasons for the disinherited to challenge a will In a previous blog we discussed who had standing to challenge an unfair will in British Columbia. In this week’s blog I want to outline the general reasons that a person who…

Unfair Wills: Who can challenge in BC? (Video Blog)

August 22, 2016
Darren Williams
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Estate Planning, Legal FAQs, Unfair Wills, Video Blogs, Wills and Estates

BC Laws are the Most Sympathetic to the Wrongly Disinherited Many people do not know that BC’s laws are the most sympathetic laws in all of Canada to people who have been unfairly treated in a family member’s will. Many…

Practical Advice on Wills and Estates Planning for Blended Families

May 25, 2015
Darren Williams
Estate Disputes, Estate Law, Estate Planning, Info Articles

Many Canadian families do not follow the traditional family structure and are often formed by two people who have children from previous relationships. The 2011 census provides that these “blended families” now comprise 12.6% of Canada’s 3.7 million families. The…

Estate Dispute Case: Changing an Unfair Will

Helping those unfairly disinherited: Estate law blogs – now translated into Chinese

Estate Law Video Blogs in English, Punjabi & Hindi: Helping those Unfairly Disinherited

Fixing a Broken Will – What can the court do?

Disinheritance: That’s It – You’re Out of the Will!

Undue influence: When will-makers are persuaded to disinherit

Disinherited? Reasons a BC estate can or should be challenged? (Video Blog)

Unfair Wills: Who can challenge in BC? (Video Blog)

Practical Advice on Wills and Estates Planning for Blended Families

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