Wills, Estates and Succession Act Transition Guide--ONLINE

Your helpful guidebook to the Wills, Estates and Succession Act and the new Probate Rules 

This publication is essential for: all practitioners who do any wills and estates work

Current to: June 1, 2014

ONLINE ONLY annual subscriptions to this book include convenient online access with search capability, links to the full text of cases and legislation, downloadable forms and precedents, and regular updates. 

This guidebook includes overviews of the WESA and the Probate Rules, detailed tables of concordance prepared by the BCLI and CLEBC, and full, annotated versions of the WESA and Probate Rules. You will also find topical chapters that review key emerging and transition issues, and learn what you don’t need to worry about at this time. The commentary in the WESA Transition Guide was prepared by many of the WESA's central figures and other leading estates practitioners.

Highlights of the 2014 Update include:

• amendments to the WESA pursuant to Bill 14, 2014 (Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2014)
  
• amendments to the new probate rules (Part 25 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules), pursuant to B.C. Reg. 44/2014
  
• amendments to the probate forms in new Appendix A.1 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules
  
• related recent practice developments affecting the WESA
  
• all parts of the publication current to June 1, 2014

CLEBC Legal Editor
Jonathan Vogt
jvogt@cle.bc.ca

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Chapters

Part 1—Wills, Estates and Succesion Act

1. An Overview of the WESA

2. Concordances for the WESA

3. WESA: Annotated with Commentary

3A. Wills, Estates and Succession Regulation

Part 2—New Probate Rules

4. An Overview of the New Probate Rules

5. Concordances for the Probate Rules

6. New Probate Rules: Annotated with Commentary

7. New Probate Forms

Part 3—Special Topics

8. Estate Planning Issues

9. Intestacy

10. Beneficiary Designations

11. Survivorship

12. Estate Administration Issues

13. Curative Dispensing Power/Rectification

14. Conflicts Provisions

Authors
James D. Baird — Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver
Lauren A. Blake-Borrell — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Gregory G. Blue, QC — British Columbia Law Institute, Vancouver
Rhys Davies, QC — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Elizabeth R. Edinger — Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, University of BC, Vancouver
Emma J. Ferguson — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Andrea E. Frisby — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Mary B. Hamilton — Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Vancouver
Deidre J. Herbert — McLellan Herbert, Vancouver
Mark Horne, QC — Horne Coupar, Victoria
Fiona Hunter — Horne Coupar, Victoria
Michelle L. Isaak — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Kirsten H. Jenkins — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
Roger D. Lee — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Helen H. Low — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Andrew S. MacKay — Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Vancouver
Gordon B. MacRae, QC — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Emma A. McArthur — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
Hugh S. McLellan — McLellan Herbert, Vancouver
D. Peter Ramsay, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo
Genevieve N. Taylor — Legacy Tax + Trust Lawyers, Vancouver
Sadie L. Wetzel — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Will Todd — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Geoffrey W. White — Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation, Kelowna
Chelsea Wilson — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo
Kevin J. Zakreski — British Columbia Law Institute, Vancouver