Learning from experience
In a traditional law practice, someone looking to retain a lawyer would go into that lawyer’s office, meet with them and, if happy with that lawyer, retain them to provide services. This model hasn’t changed much for the last few centuries.
Planning for the future and ensuring your loved ones are taken care of is an important responsibility. It can also be stressful and time consuming. Online wills have emerged as a convenient and accessible tool that does away with some of the barriers of traditional estate planning.
What do you do if a loved one becomes unable to care for themselves or unable to manage their lives?
BC became the first Canadian province to allow its residents to sign, witness and store their Wills online.
Having a Will is so important, especially for those with children, but the options are an online will kit or meeting with a lawyer. One offers no legal advice, the other is a cumbersome process no one has time for.
These days, there is more than one way to have a will prepared. While most people will have a lawyer assist them, some are turning to the many online services that allow you to prepare a will yourself. These online options are the modernized version of the forms you could once buy at your local store.
In Canada, the prevalence of divorce now seems to be part of modern life. It is accepted that people enter relationships, often have kids, and then leave when the relationship breaks down. One of the less heralded outcomes of this is that more and more people are entering into serious relationships in or near their ‘golden years’.
Both bigamy and polygamy are illegal in British Columbia, but it is entirely possible (and legal) to have two spouses at the same time. How, you may ask? It comes down to how the Family Law Act defines a spouse.
