Most people are completely unaware of the heavy personal legal and financial responsibility they accept when they agree to ...

Our dad is 93 and has a reverse mortgage on his house, where he lived until recently with my brother and my brother’s friend.

When John Tocher died of blood cancer, his family expected grief and paperwork — not a financial limbo that would leave his daughter unable to get out of bed. Months later, a six-figure bank draft ...

The court ruled she was personally liable for unpaid income taxes after her husband died intestate and she was never ...

The B.C. Court of Appeal has reversed a decision about a Metro Vancouver woman’s $5 million estate, saying the previous judge ...

It’s cloak and dagger time. Last week, while revisiting a series I wrote about avoiding probate, I mentioned another tactic, holding wealth in assets that don’t require probate, s asuchlike gold bars.

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In our weekly legal column, the Leader, with the expert advice of the team at GHP Legal, sets out to answer some of your problems. Today's question is answered by Partner Ulia ...

The UK government has set an unrealistic deadline for inheritance tax payments on unused pensions, posing a “huge problem” ...

A daughter who inherited almost all of her father’s £600,000 estate now faces a £400,000 legal bill after her siblings ...

Believe it or not, there is a legal circumstance in which you may have to return a part of your inheritance. Here's how you ...

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