Ex-Wife and New Spouse Battle Over $100,000 Life Insurance Proceeds
An out-of-date beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy can throw a wrench in an estate plan. Where a beneficiary is designated, the insurance money does not…
BC Mom Who Transferred Property to Kids to Avoid Creditors Not Allowed to Reclaim It
Property transfers between parent and adult child are quite common. A parent may transfer property to an adult child for estate planning purposes or simply because a…
BC Family Lawyers on Using Unjust Enrichment to Obtain Share of Property
In a recent post, our BC family lawyers discussed Judge v. Judge, 2015 BCSC 1764, a family law case in which the court determined that properties acquired…
Son’s Vancouver Estate Law Claim Denied due to Benefits Received Through the Years
In a recent Vancouver estate law matter, Grewal v. Litt, 2019 BCSC 1154, a son claimed that he should receive $400,000 from his parents’ estate to compensate…
Vancouver Estate Lawyers Discuss Competing Claims to Insurance Proceeds
In some cases, the deceased’s estate has no significant assets and the real contest centres on entitlement to insurance proceeds. In a recent post, our Vancouver estate…
Competing Claims of a Second Spouse to Life Insurance Proceeds
The Supreme Court of Canada was recently asked to weigh the competing claims of a second spouse and a first spouse to the proceeds of a life…
Vancouver Estate Lawyers on Remedy for Unjust Enrichment: Money or Property?
In recent weeks, our Vancouver estate lawyers have discussed the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Moore v. Sweet, 2018 SCC 52, where a disappointed beneficiary succeeded…
Vancouver Estate Law: Applying Unjust Enrichment to Disappointed Beneficiary Claim
In this post, the lawyers at our Vancouver estate law firm discuss a contest between two innocent parties, both of whom claimed an entitlement to the proceeds…