Tag: Gift or Estate Asset

November 2, 2017 No Comments

Teixeira v Markgraf 2017 ONCA 819 dealt with the issue of inter vivos gifts of cheques. In the Teireira case the plaintiff was given a

October 19, 2017 No Comments

Weinhaupt v Paracy 2017 BCSC 1662 deals with an increasing phenomena- the advancement of funds by parents to children in order to assist in the

October 16, 2017 No Comments

Ward v Roberts 2017 BCSC 1768 allowed the termination of a trust on the basis that there was no ” gift over” and thus it

September 29, 2016 No Comments

It is often difficult for the court to determine if advancements of funds from one party to another done orally and without witnesses is a

September 9, 2016 No Comments

Berger was advised to challenge her father’s will not on grounds of “undue influence” but under a section of the B.C. Wills Variation Act that

August 26, 2014 No Comments

The Transferor’s Intention when the “gift” in dispute was created is the key indicator as to whether a right of survivorship is valid or not

December 12, 2013 No Comments

Ryan O’Neal testifies about disputed Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett Love is never having to say your sorry, and that she gave me the $12

November 19, 2013 No Comments

1. INTRODUCTION I always fell asleep during my law school trusts class. I could never have imagined then what an important role trusts would come

September 23, 2013 No Comments

Dhaliwal v Ollek 2012 BCCA 86 discusses rebutting of the presumption of a resulting trust, and upholds that the recipient done bears the onus of

September 9, 2013 No Comments

The three certainties: certainty of intention and the issue of sham trusts In order to be valid, trusts must comply with the three certainties at

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