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Estates - Wills - General

. Rivard v. Morris

In Rivard v. Morris (Ont CA, 2018) the Court of Appeal comments on the court's inquisitorial, almost curious, approach to will issues:
[66] As the application judge recognized, the sisters were entitled to challenge the will. In Neuberger Estate, this court recognised broad interests in the validity of wills, so much so that a challenge to a will is approached not adversarially but inquisitorially, with regard to the special responsibility to the testator to ensure that a document is entitled to probate. ...

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