People often wish to ensure confidentiality in doing their estate planning as an important goal.

Join O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP for their upcoming webinar.

Join this webinar from O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP to stay on top, be able to spot the issues and understand the complicated cross-border challenges that arise when Canadians and Americans have connections to each other's jurisdiction, including assets, citizenship, residency and beneficiaries.

Are you (or your clients) making estate plans or administering an estate that involves one or more countries? Will you (or your clients) inherit property in England?

A key issue in estate planning that parents struggle with is, "at what age should children inherit?" says estate planning lawyer Margaret O'Sullivan, Founder and Managing Partner of O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP.

This webinar will explore a number of important issues, as well as present case studies to illustrate solutions to multijurisdictional planning issues.

Given the absolute importance of ensuring our clients' final wishes will be properly carried out, and their loved ones properly cared for, estate planning lawyers...

Sustainable living does not have to end with your lifetime. In today’s increasingly eco-conscious world, more and more individuals are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and leave things “greener” for future generations. Eco-friendly estate planning can integrate those values into practical decisions that reduce your environmental impact while caring for loved ones after your death.

Earlier this week, O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers participated as one of the gold sponsors of the STEP Canada (the Canadian branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) 20th National Conference in Toronto...

Millennials are a loosely defined group of people (those born approximately between 1981 to 2001) who are now beginning to enter the workforce and acquire their own assets.

The average person may think that estate planning consists of only creating a valid will.

It is becoming more and more the "norm" in many areas of day-to-day life that in lieu of an original paper copy of a document being given to us during some form of transaction or interaction, the document is instead created and sent to us digitally.

In March of this year, I wrote about the complications which can arise in administering an estate of an individual who owns a vacation home in a U.S. state such as Florida or Arizona.

Often people who are doing their estate planning have one overriding goal in mind: keep it simple.

Everyone knows that death and taxes are two of life's certainties, but some of us may not appreciate that our tax liabilities don't disappear on death ...

A well drafted will is not worth the (stack of) paper it is written on if it fails to achieve the client's objectives.

When major life events occur, it is important to consider your estate planning and what updates and changes must be done.

As parents, we worry about our children: a truism that becomes even more true, and often extends to siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, when a child has special needs.

In the usual course of estate administration, one of the preliminary steps is often obtaining a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee with a Will (often referred to as “probate”).

Probate is the often-dreaded process where an estate trustee receives a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee which confirms their authority to administer the estate.