Our Vancouver undue influence Will dispute lawyers welcome the new changes to undue influence disputes related to elderly and infirm testators. Formerly, when a deceased gave a bequest to a close family member or third party where suspicious circumstances on the bequest existed, the person raising the issue of undue or improper influence existed faced […]
Vancouver Testamentary Capacity Suspicious Circumstances
What happens when someone changes their will twice just before death while suffering from a fast progressing fatal illness? Testamentary capacity can be impaired at this time and there can be a danger of undue influence over the fast declining will maker raising concerns over BC testamentary capacity suspicious circumstances. Our experienced BC testamentary capacity […]
BC Unfair Wills Joint Tenancy
The estate litigation and BC Unfair Wills Joint Tenancy lawyers at MacLean Law regularly update British Columbians on key developments in unfair BC Wills and estate dispute cases. A recent BC decision provides a tidy summary of the law on BC Unfair Wills Joint Tenancy issues. We warn you that this case was decided under the old […]
Elder Law Undue Influence
The BC Court of Appeal decision in Lorintt v. Boda upheld a lower court decision that held the presumption of resulting trust had been rebutted, and that the relationship between the donor father, and the donee son, did not give rise to the potential of undue influence. In resulting trust cases the principle that there […]
