3 September 2015

FAMILY MEMBER CAREGIVERS – UNDERSTAND YOU ARE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD AND DUTY

Caregivers are increasingly being held to a higher legal standard. They are now generally regarded as a fiduciary to the person to whom they provide care. A fiduciary has higher obligations legally caregivers are now in that category. Historically there are general categories of fiduciary relationships that have evolved in Ontario. They include: agent to […]

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PARENTS – PUTTING YOUR ADULT CHILD ON YOUR JOINT BANK ACCOUNT – DON’T LEAVE A LEGACY OF LITIGATION

Over the past six months, I receive more and more calls about cases involving joint bank accounts between a parent and an adult child (when the parent passed away), most of which involving disputes raised by other adult children of the parent who passes. Joint bank accounts is an increasingly popular tool used by elderly

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