Wills, Estates and Succession Act Transition Guide

This publication is essential for: all practitioners who do any wills and estates work.

Current to: September 16, 2013 

Prepare for the new Wills, Estates and Succession Act and the new Probate Rules with this helpful guidebook!

The Wills, Estates and Succession Act and the new Probate Rules will take effect on March 31, 2014. The WESA Transition Guide will help you get ready for the sweeping changes. Completely updated to September 16, 2013, this guidebook includes overviews of the WESA and the Probate Rules, detailed tables of concordance prepared by the BCLI and CLEBC, and full, annotated versions of the WESA and Probate Rules. You will also find topical chapters that review key emerging and transition issues, and learn what you don’t need to worry about at this time. The commentary in the WESA Transition Guide was prepared by many of the WESA’s central figures and other leading estates practitioners. All of the information is contained in an easy-to-use looseleaf binder, with an accompanying online version.

PLUS On the fully searchable online version of the WESA Transition Guide, and on a CD-ROM included in the binder, subscribers will receive Word versions of all new Probate Forms.

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Significant changes since the original publication in 2010

• many substantive amendments to the WESA
• introduction of the new Probate Rules and Probate forms
• the new Family Law Act
• all chapters have been updated, while some have been completely rewritten
• brand new chapters
  • chapter 3A (Wills, Estates and Succession Regulation)
  • chapter 7 (New Probate Forms)
  • chapter 8 (Estate Planning Issues)
• on the fully searchable online version of the WESA Transition Guide, and on a CD-ROM included in the binder, subscribers will receive Word versions of all new Probate forms

CLEBC Legal Editor
Jonathan Vogt
jvogt@cle.bc.ca

CONTENTS
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Part I: WILLS, ESTATES AND SUCCESSION ACT

1. An Overview of the WESA

2. Concordances for the WESA

3. WESA: Annotated with Commentary

3A. Wills, Estates and Succession Regulation

Part II: NEW PROBATE RULES

4. An Overview of the New Probate Rules

5. Concordances for the Probate Rules

6. New Probate Rules: Annotated with Commentary

7. New Probate Forms

Part III: SPECIAL TOPICS

8. Estate Planning Issues

9. Intestacy

10. Beneficiary Designations

11. Survivorship

12. Estate Administration Issues

13. Curative Dispensing Power/Rectification

14. Conflicts Provisions

Features

• thoughtful overviews of the WESA and the Rules
• complete text of the WESA and the new WESA Regulations
• complete text of the draft new Probate Rules and Probate Forms
• practical commentary on the implications of each section of the WESA and the Rules
• tables of concordance for the WESA and the Rules, with “old to new” and “new to old” for ease of reference
• topical chapters on the key features and issues of the WESA
• all features of the publication current to September 16, 2013 (to be supplemented as necessary)
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law

Authors
James D. Baird — Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver
Lauren A. Blake-Borrell — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Gregory G. Blue, QC — British Columbia Law Institute, Vancouver
Rhys Davies, QC — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Elizabeth R. Edinger — Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, University of BC, Vancouver
Emma J. Ferguson — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Andrea E. Frisby — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Mary B. Hamilton — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Deidre J. Herbert — McLellan Herbert, Vancouver
Mark Horne, QC — Horne Coupar, Victoria
Fiona Hunter — Horne Coupar, Victoria
Michelle L. Isaak — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Kirsten H. Jenkins — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver
Roger D. Lee — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Helen H. Low — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Andrew S. MacKay — Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Vancouver
Gordon B. MacRae, QC — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Emma A. McArthur — Bull, Housser & Tupper, Vancouver 
Hugh S. McLellan — McLellan Herbert, Vancouver
D. Peter Ramsay, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo
Genevieve N. Taylor — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Sadie L. Wetzel — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Will Todd — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Geoffrey W. White — Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation, Kelowna
Chelsea Wilson — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo
Kevin J. Zakreski — British Columbia Law Institute, Vancouver