A-Z Subject List: Key Legal Treatises and Textbooks

This source covers key issues such as on estate administration, probate and construction issues, legislative reforms and the law in Canada and selected Commonwealth and U.S. jurisdictions.

Provides a complete primer on all aspects of the law, incorporating text and commentary with concisely edited case extracts to elucidate and explore every aspect and phase of wills law.

The capacity to make a will, the capacity to make beneficiary designations, the capacity to make gifts, and the capacity to settle trusts are examined in this book. Undue influence is looked at both under the equitable doctrine and under the common law. The laws of Canada, excluding Quebec, are covered in this treatise.

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This book sets out, in plain language, several documents that practitioners use when they are retained to prepare wills. Chapters 1 to 22 contain annotated clauses for the preparation of wills. These chapters provide for wills that have a single executor/trustee. The identical clauses, adapted for wills that have more than one executor/trustee, appear in online chapters 50 to 71.

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This is a practice-oriented guide for handling probate and estate administration matters in British Columbia.

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The manual begins with tax fundamentals and a basic understanding of estate planning principles, and moves into practical reviews of more specialized topics, including business succession, estate freezes, family relations planning, joint tenancies, inter vivos trusts, life insurance, registered investment accounts, planning for incapacity, planned charitable giving, trusts for persons with disabilities, RDSPs, multi-jurisidictional wills, and international estate planning.