Estate Litigation Basics-2010 Update
Product Type:
Course Materials - Print
ISBN:
978-1-5258-703-4
Pages:
153
Price:
$150.00
This book is essential for: lawyers starting out a practice in the area of wills, estates, and trusts litigation; the book may also be of interest to general practitioners.
Current to: October 2010
Get back to basics!
This book provides you with the fundamental building blocks and essential information to litigate a wills and estates case and to build a practice in the area. We examine substantive, procedural, and ethical topics that will prepare you to successfully conduct your estate litigation practice. Covered in this set of materials: drafting affidavit paragraphs, contested committeeships, challenging inter vivos transfers, a primer on the Wills Variation Act, probate actions, and dealing with the problem executor.
Course Materials Coordinator
Amy D. Francis — Legacy Tax +Trusts Lawyers, Vancouver
CONTENTS
- view from the bench: drafting affidavit paragraphs
- contested committeeships: issues commonly encountered, committeeship process
- challenging inter vivos transfers and beneficiary designations: types of claims and remedies
- interpretation of wills: the will read as a whole, evidence surrounding circumstances, procedure, cy pres, unborn contingent beneficiaries
- Wills Variation Act primer: considerations for variation, practice points
- practising estate litigation: sample joint retainer provisions; resources for estate litigation lawyers
- probate actions: general principles, challenges to wills, procedural steps and the Rules of Court, costs in probate actions
- dealing with the problem executor: precedents; passing accounts (or, a passel of passing problems)
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The Honourable Madam Justice Amy D. Francis
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The Honourable Victoria Gray
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M. Scott Kerwin
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Kimberly A. Kuntz
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Helen H. Low, KC
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Edward F. Macaulay
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Amy A. Mortimore, KC
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Stanley Rule
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Megan Swail
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Chelsea A. Wilson
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