By approaching estate planning with openness and involving your family in the conversation, you create a legacy of love, respect, and financial security that extends beyond your lifetime. 20 Jun

What & When Should You Tell Your Children About Their Inheritance?

All of our personal losses, such as the death of a loved one, have financial aspects. Survivors are faced with making money decisions and dealing with finances while they are grieving. There is nothing wrong with asking for help. 06 Jun

Loss & Transition: Coping with Finances While Coping with Grief

It might be the hardest part of caregiving — watching your loved one slip away step by terrible step, knowing you can’t stop the decline and grieving the loss, long before they’re actually gone. 16 May

Five Steps for Dealing with Anticipatory Grief

Family Enterprise Canada: Effective Estate Planning Tools 21 Feb

Family Enterprise Canada: Effective Estate Planning Tools

Glossary: Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning | Plain-English definitions of common terms used in estate planning and probate 04 Jan

Common Terms Used in Estate Planning and Probate

The Probate Process: Frequently Asked Questions 05 Oct

Frequently Asked Questions About The Probate Process

HopeHealth grief counselor, Diane Lambert, has advice to help those who may find themselves feeling emotionally adrift now that one or both parents is no longer a phone call away... 20 Jun

Ways to Help You Heal & Cope: Grieving the Loss of a Parent

Learning that a member of your family is dying is often the most devastating news a family can receive. This article shares 8 tips for coping with a terminal diagnosis. 10 Jun

Coping with a Loved One’s Terminal Diagnosis: 8 Tips for Families

A Letter of Wishes is an important document and we would usually recommend writing one when setting up a trust or writing a Will which contains trust provisions. They should be updated when circumstances change and reviewed on a regular basis. 25 Feb

Letter of Wishes: What You Need to Know

Estate Planning Guidance for Every Stage of Life 17 Feb

Estate Planning Guidance for Every Stage of Life

The BC Court of Appeal has confirmed that the removal and use of human reproductive materials (sperm, ova, and embryos) both during one’s life, and after one’s death, requires prior and informed written consent. 01 Dec

Case Study: Posthumous Use of Human Reproductive Material

This handbook is for those who have been appointed an executor (now called an “estate trustee”) in Ontario. Read further for excerpts from "How to Administer an Estate in Ontario: Plain Language Handbook", available on Amazon... 01 Sep

How to Administer an Estate in Ontario: Plain Language Handbook