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Estate Litigation

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Estate litigation often follows the loss of a loved one, or when capacity issues of an elderly parent or friend become apparent. In these disputes, where emotions, family, and interpersonal conflicts escalate, the overall management of an action can be affected. Our counsel has experience in a multitude of estate issues, and provide sensitive advice and direction in these inter-personal issues.

Our estate litigation lawyers provide assistance to executors, personal representatives and beneficiaries in a variety of challenges to wills, trusts and powers of attorney, including guardianship and trusteeship disputes, dependent adult claims, and capacity, undue influence and will interpretation and validity issues. We also advise trustees, trusts and charitable institutions, and our lawyers are active in the Canadian Bar Association Wills and Estates activities.

When litigation arises about an estate or a dependent adult, circumstances are already challenging. Our approach is to provide straight-forward and concise advice to our clients with sensitivity, and to develop strategy to achieve an efficient solution, whether through litigation, arbitration or mediation.

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  • Richard B. Swan Richard B. Swan, Partner
  • Barbara J. Stratton Q.C. Barbara J. Stratton Q.C., Partner
  • Grant N. Stapon Q.C. Grant N. Stapon Q.C., Partner
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Just Say "No": Acceptance of a Secret Trust in Bergler v Odenthal

June 30, 2020
       

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Wills Drafting: When to Challenge

December 2019
       

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Bennett Jones: Canada’s Leading Litigation Lawyers

November 29, 2019
       

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Barbara Stratton in The Lawyer’s Daily: New Clarity on Will Interpretation

March 07, 2019
       

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Staying the Course: Courts Will Not Hear Stayed Actions

November 20, 2017
       

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Lawyers' Opinions Matter When a Will Is Prepared

June 08, 2017
       

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A Deceased Can't Always Will What They Want

February 22, 2017
       

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Be Sure to Mind your Manners in Estate Litigation

February 08, 2017
       

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