Hello and welcome to this week’s video 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 the formal drafting requirements for a valid will – that is the Will itself…
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 is disinherited by a will might be able to successfully challenge it in British Columbia….
Every year in British Columbia slightly more than 30,000 people die, many of whom have some assets and debts (“an estate”) and a variety of personal and business affairs that they leave behind. How the assets and debts are administered and how the proceeds of the estate are divided will depend on whether or not there was a Will in place and…
