The Ontario government should create a more streamlined, cost-effective process for administering small estates worth less than $50,000, suggests a report from the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO). The ...

Probate is the court-supervised process of validating a deceased person’s will. It involves identifying the person’s final assets, paying last debts and distributing property to the proper heirs. And ...

This article appears in the June 2021 issue of Advisor’s Edge magazine. Subscribe to the print edition, read the digital edition or read the articles online. The Ontario government’s simplified ...