{"id":6486,"date":"2018-11-27T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:42:15","slug":"dual-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/dual-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Validity of Dual Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5599532222_5dd458c713_b.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5599532222_5dd458c713_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently given two contrasting decisions regarding the validity of dual Wills in the context of an Application for a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee with a Will (otherwise known as an application for probate).<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Milne Estate (Re)<\/em>, [2018] O.J. No. 4656, the Court held that a Secondary Will was valid but the Primary Will was not. In that case, the Court concluded that the requirement for a valid trust that there be certainty of subject matter was not satisfied with respect to the Primary Will because the language used in the Primary Will conferred a discretion on the Estate Trustees to determine retroactively whether any particular assets are included in it.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately two months later, the Court gave a contrasting decision regarding the validity of dual Wills. In <em>Panda Estate (Re)<\/em>, [2018] O.J. No. 6075, the Court declined to follow the decision in <em>Milne Estate (Re)<\/em>. The Court held that a Will is not a trust and that the validity of a Will for purposes of an application for probate does not include the need to satisfy the requirement for certainty of subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>It is notable that the <em>Milne Estate (Re)<\/em> decision has been appealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/practice-areas\/wills-and-estates\/\">Our lawyers with expertise in this area<\/a> of practice can you review your dual Wills to avoid pitfalls in light of these recent developments.<\/p>\n<p>Blog post written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/lawyers\/robert-di-lallo\/\">Robert Di Lallo<\/a>, associate lawyer with Daniel &amp; Partners LLP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently given two contrasting decisions regarding the validity of dual Wills in the context of an Application for a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee with a Will (otherwise known as an application for probate). In Milne Estate (Re), [2018] O.J. No. 4656, the Court held that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[74,75,46,33,71,76,34,72,77,61,78],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}