Hull on Estates
Hull on Estates is a series of podcasts for the Canadian legal community dealing with issues and insights surrounding estate planning in Canada. Hosted by the lawyers of Hull & Hull LLP, the podcasts will touch on some of the key considerations when planning wills and estates
This week on Hull on Estates, David Smith and Jonathan Morse review some of the recent podcasts and hone in on some of the evidentiary requirements of a common-law spousal relationship as it relates to dependant support claims under the Succession Law Reform Act. They look at some recent case law and some of the requirements under the Ontario statute.

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Direct download: HOE_130_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:21 PM

This week on Hull on Estates, Ian Hull and Suzana Popovic-Montag discuss fiduciary accounting. Who is a fiduciary and what is a fiduciary's duty to account? They cite several cases that illustrate fiduciary accounting rules:

  • Re Taerk, [1975] O.R. 482 (C.A.).
  • Re Silver Estate, (1999) 31 E.T.R. (2nd) 256.
  • Roger Estate v. Leung, [2001] O.J. No. 2171.
  • Fair v. Campbell Estate, 2002 3 E.T.R. 3rd 67, Langdon J.
  • Fareed v. Wood, 2005 WL 1460361 (Ont. S.C.J.).
  • McAllister Estate v. Hudgin, 2008 CanLII 42213 (ON S.C.)

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Direct download: HOE_129_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00 AM

Natalia Angelini and Chris Graham discuss attorneyship issues - specifically solicitor's liability with respect to powers of attorney and an attorney's duty to account.

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Direct download: HOE128_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00 AM

Craig Vander Zee and Bianca La Neve discuss variation of trusts, with an emphasis on the Variation of Trusts Act and approval of variations of trusts on behalf of minor, unascertained, unborn or contingent beneficiaries.  The well-known case of R. v. Irving (1975), 11. O.R. (2d) 42 (H.C.) is discussed.

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Direct download: HOE_127_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:13 PM

This week on Hull on Estates, Diane Vieira and Rick Bickhram discuss the issue of when an estate trustee is responsible to search for potential heirs to an estate.

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Direct download: HOE_126_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00 AM