Life Estates

Committeeship: The Criteria For Who Gets Appointed

Re Horton 2020 BCSC 87 reviewed the criteria required for an order of committeeship under the Patient’s Property act and ordered that the Public Guardian and Trustee be appointed and
Notaries May Not Draw Wills with Trusts or Life Interests

Notaries May Not Draw Wills with Trusts or Life Interests

The BC Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court decision that notaries are not allowed to prepare wills in British Columbia that create life estates or trusts under the Notaries
Life Estate Can Be Partitioned

Life Estate Can Be Partitioned

Aho v Kelly 1998 CarawellBC 1285 held that a one third owner of a property who also held a life estate in the property had the right to capitalize the
Life Estate Valuation

Life Estate Valuation

Re: Zarowiecki 1092 CarswellMan 99 dealt with the valuation of a life estate in a homestead and followed the formula dictated by the Supreme Court of Canada in Re Morice
Adverse Possession

Adverse Possession

Mowaqtt v BC Attorney general 2016 BCCA 113 dealt with a long established principle of  adverse possession  relating to  squatters long time  use of  property that had escheated to the

Right to Die Case in UK Goes to Britain’s Highest Court

From the BBC re the Right to Die Case in UK Campaigners for the right to die are to have their arguments heard by the Supreme Court in the latest round

Euthanasia For Terminally Ill Children Proposed In Belgium

Euthanasia For Terminally Ill Children Proposed In Belgium. Further to my blog of a few days ago, Belgium is once again in the news as it is close to introducing

Belgium’s Liberal But Controversial Euthanasia Laws

Euthanasia Laws “Death by Doctor” as euthanasia is often known, is strictly illegal in Canada. Belgium however has in recent years enacted perhaps the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws. It

Life Estates aka Life Interests

  Life estates, also known as life interests, are a well-established part of estate planning. The owner of a life estate (“the life tenant”) has the right to occupy, use

Doctors Cannot End Life Support Without Consent- SCC

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that doctors cannot unilaterally choose to end life support services for Hassan Rasouli, an Ontario man who has been comatose since 2010. In