We offer bespoke estate planning, seamless administration, and strategic litigation. With discretion and precision we ensure your legacy endures for generations.
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Confidence Through Careful Estate Planning
Creating a robust estate plan is an expression of love and care for those left behind. We ensure you balance the interests of those you leave behind and help you navigate the complexities of establishing your wills, trusts, beneficiary designations and power of attorney documents.
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Confidence in Estate Administration
Our role is to alleviate your legal burden, allowing you to focus on moments that matter. We hold the executor's hand through probate process through to obtaining final tax clearance, including communicating with beneficiaries. We help you ensure your legal duty is discharged with the highest standards of integrity and professionalism.
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Protecting Legacies with Experience and Expertise
We offer timely and effective litigation resolution of all manner of estate disputes such as, will challenges, trust disputes, dependency claims, guardianship disputes, undue influence, disappointed beneficiaries, estate trustee disputes, etc.
Estate Planning
We work together to strategize an estate plan tailored to your family situation, personal values and estate assets. Regardless of whether you have a straightforward situation or a complex one with a blended family, corporate interests, cross border assets, disabled beneficiaries, and more, our solutions ensure your legacy is preserved and your wishes are upheld with discretion.
A Will outlines your wishes for asset distribution after your passing, while a trust can manage assets during your lifetime and beyond and can be a useful component in your Will. Trusts offer privacy and can help avoid probate.
What is the difference between a will and a trust?
The timeline to administer an estate and distribute all assets depends on the complexity of the estate and whether disputes arise. It can take at least a year, but potentially longer.
How long does the probate process take?
Dying without a Will means the Ontario rules of intestacy apply to dictate the distribution of your estate according to a prescribed scheme. No one is entitled as your estate trustee, but a special court application is needed. Valuable planning opportunities are lost.
What happens if someone dies without a will?
Estate litigation may arise when a beneficiary, estate trustee or other party with "standing" initiates court involvement to dispute the Will, apply for Dependant's Relief if they did not receive enough under the Will, clarify the terms of a Will, and countless other scenarios. It involves asking a court to resolve issues that the parties cannot resolve themselves.
What is estate litigation?
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Estate Administration
Managing an estate can be complex, especially when significant assets or sensitive relationships are involved. We guide executors and beneficiaries through each step, streamlining the process and addressing every obligation with care and efficiency. We handle interjurisdictional estates, business succession and wind up, real property sales, and other complexities.
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“Angela covered areas that we weren't aware of or considered before. We now feel confident that we have organized our estate plans in the right and legal manner and it was worth every penny of our investment.”
We know that there are many self-learning estate planning tools available online and we have looked at some but we now realize how incomplete and potentially not fully legal our estate plans would have been had we pursued these tools.
Jerry Witkowikz
Estate Planning
“My brother and I were thrown into the unexpected situation of becoming the executor for both our grandmother’s and father’s estates at the same time.”
It was a difficult time, but we were relieved to have Angela’s assistance with the estate administration. Thanks to the great advice we received, we worked through all the tax and court filings and resolved both estates, and have now been able to put this stressful time behind us. We highly recommend Angela Fallow and Fallow Estates Law.
Tyler & Michael
Estate Administration
