Learning from experience
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.
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.
