While succession planning determines who will lead the business, estate planning focuses on who gets your wealth. This process typically involves creating legal tools like wills and trusts to ...

A family trust is a vital tool for estate and succession planning ... and safeguards assets from unforeseen liabilities. Online wills - pros and cons: These are convenient and affordable, but ...

Succession and estate planning requires multiple steps and ... Other aspects of durable powers of attorney, health care proxies, living wills, and retirement plans will not be discussed in this fact ...

Succession planning ... continuity and minimises potential disruptions during the transition process. Wills and trusts should not be viewed as competing alternatives; rather, the choice between ...

Disputes over the last decade among prominent business families have only added to the urgency with which this matter is dealt. Prominent among them are the Kirloskars, Birla- Lodha, Kalyani and ...

This is the second part of a series about applying for an estate grant, which most people refer to as “probate”.

In addition to the common law, we will consider Nova Scotia legislation including the Wills Act, Intestate Succession Act, Probate Act, Testators’ Family Maintenance Act and Matrimonial Property Act, ...