Estate planning is part of comprehensive financial planning. It includes making a will. If you don’t make a will before your death, you will die intestate. In that case, your assets will be ...

Financial planning means giving thought to how you want to manage your investments and other assets during your lifetime. But it also means taking a longer view and considering what will happen to ...

Take it from someone who got tongue tied a few times trying, “intestate” can be a tough word to say out loud. The phrase itself, “intestate succession” refers to the distribution of the estate when a ...

We are assuming that your father was a Hindu, that he was governed by Hindu laws and that the property is coparcenary property. Since no Will was made by your father, the inheritance of the house is ...

This is quite a peculiar problem that is quite common in Hindu families wherein the shares of the family-run business is held by all family members. Since your estranged brother runs a competing ...

As poll after poll reveals, only about half of adult Canadians have a will in place. This is despite the fact that these surveys also consistently show that most Canadians appreciate the importance of ...

THE PERSON who is next entitled both to administer an estate and to benefit in an estate are determined in accordance with the statutory rules of entitlement as set out in the Succession Act 1965. The ...