CLE-TV: What Estate Lawyers Need To Know About Assisted Reproduction

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The ART of Estates

—Rebroadcast—
Last Kick at the Can
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 OR
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm via webinar

(Original course: November 8, 2017)

Who should attend: Experienced lawyers with a wills and/or estates practice. This course may also be of interest to all levels of wills and estates lawyers, wills and estates paralegals, and family lawyers.

Learning level: Intermediate/Advanced

Making testamentary gifts of frozen sperm, eggs, and embryos stored at fertility clinics. Planning for clients who have had a child through surrogacy. Probating the estate of a man who was a sperm donor. Making “adequate provision” for a child who has more than two legal parents. These are just a few situations where the law of assisted reproductive technology (ART) affects estate planning and administration.

Gone are the days of the “bio or adopted” legal child. With more people using ART to create their families, and a focus on pre-conception intention in BC, estate lawyers need to understand what to look for when clients come in the door.

In this course, we will cover:

Ownership of gametes (sperm and eggs) and embryos
Use of gametes and embryos under the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act and regulations, and post-death sperm extraction
Making clients’ intentions for frozen gametes and embryos legally effective (and what happens if they aren’t)
Parentage of ART-born children under BC’s Family Law Act, and how this fits with the Wills, Estates, and Succession Act
Multi-parent families and post-death conception
Planning issues and tips for wills
Probate practice points
Potential litigation areas, including jurisdiction and transition, where outcomes depend on which law applies

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 1.5 hours (this course will NOT include any professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management)

Course Chairs
Lynda Cassels — Cassels Murray, Victoria
Monique Shebbeare — Monique Shebbeare Law Corporation, Vancouver

Pricing	Last Kick at the Can Rebroadcast
Rebroadcast	$149
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CLEBC Program Lawyer
Meredith Woods
mwoods@cle.bc.ca

Course Chairs
Lynda Cassels — Cassels Murray, Victoria
Monique Shebbeare — Monique Shebbeare Law Corporation, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs

Lynda Cassels assists clients with the legal issues that arise during major life transitions, including resolving issues arising from separation and divorce, drafting marriage and cohabitation agreements, estate administration, estate planning, and advising clients who are starting a family or dealing with the death or diminishing capacity of a loved one. Lynda has a particular interest in fertility law and elder law, and with helping clients resolve family disputes outside of court. She is a member of the Fertility Law BC working group and Victoria’s Collaborative Family Separation Professionals and is accredited as a family law mediator. Lynda is active with the Canadian Bar Association, having previously served as vice-chair of the Victoria family law section and co-chair of the provincial Elder Law section. In 2012, she and Christine Murray founded Cassels Murray, a boutique firm focused on family and estates law.

Monique Shebbeare is a wills, estates, and fertility lawyer in Vancouver. Monique helps individuals and couples with their estate planning — preparing wills, powers of attorney, and representation agreements for clients, as well as assisting executors with obtaining probate. She became interested in fertility law after she had her own child through donor conception in 2009. In fertility law, Monique prepares sperm, egg, and embryo donor agreements, as well as surrogacy agreements, including some across jurisdictional lines. She has done estate planning with clients who have stored gametes and embryos, as well as those who have formed their families through assisted reproduction. Monique wrote the annotations for the parentage section of the CLEBC Family Law Act Transition Guide. Monique grew up in Vancouver before doing her undergraduate degree in psychology at McGill and her law degree at the University of Toronto. Monique was initially called to the Ontario Bar in 2001 then to the BC Bar in 2006.

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