Choosing an Executor: Should You Appoint a Professional?
Removal of a Badly Behaving Executor in BC
As a beneficiary of a will, it can be frustrating to sit helplessly waiting while the will’s executor fails to administer the estate as expected. Unfortunately, executors sometimes cause intentional delays, are incompetent in their administration, or even abuse their…
Estate Beneficiary Rights: Forcing the Executor to Act
The executor of a will has a handful of responsibilities when administering an estate – including accounting for all estate assets, debts, and money exchanges coming into and out of the estate. Once the executor finishes the administration process and…
Benefits of Having a Will: Why writing a Will is Worthwhile
Will-writing, estate planning, estate administration, probate, trust funds, inheritances – the list of things for will-writers to consider goes on and on. In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the benefits of having an updated and valid…
Estate Planning Tips: Creating the Perfect Estate Plan
It’s important that estate planners create detailed plans that they're happy with before they pass away. Estate planning goes well beyond simply writing a will, and it’s easy to forget about important pieces of a complete estate plan. In this…
Storing a Will Electronically: Good or Bad Idea?
With the world quickly becoming more and more digital, people are constantly looking for new ways to go paperless. For many documents, it’s easy and safe to keep a copy on your computer, phone, or in 'the cloud'. These methods…
Ethical Wills: Your Legacy Estate Plan
Often people are aware of what a last will and testament is – legal bequests for how they wish for their estate to be distributed to loved ones upon their passing. Another type of will is the living will –…
The Will Isn’t Changed After a Divorce: is the Ex-Spouse Still Entitled to the Estate?
When a married couple gets a divorce, the spouses sometimes forget to change their will to reflect this major life change – to remove the ex-spouse from their will. If a person divorces and doesn’t update their will, their ex-spouse…
Common Estate Planning Mistakes
Due to the nature of estate planning, it’s important that any errors in an estate plan are identified before it’s too late. By the time the estate plan is executed, the testator has already passed away and is unable to…