You can help a charity of your choice by making charitable gifts as part of your estate planning. Planned gifts are deeply appreciated by the charities that receive them and can provide significant tax benefits to you and your estate. Ways you can make a gift to a charity: In your Will – You can […]
Estate planning is about putting a plan in place now for the ‘who, what and how’ of taking care of things if we die or if we become incapable of managing our own finances or making our own health care decisions. With a few basic legal documents, we create a roadmap and give the people […]
Being an executor is not an everyday job. For most people, being the executor for a spouse or a parent who has died is the first time they have handled an estate. It’s important to take it one step at a time. The executor will want to take some initial steps to make sure the […]
BC’s Family Law Act defines who legal parents are when a sperm donor, egg donor or embryo donor is used. BC’s new Family Law Act sets rules about parentage when children are conceived using assisted reproduction (any form of conception other than sexual intercourse). The Act sets out three important guidelines for determining legal parentage […]