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Friday, July 15, 2011
Marriage makes a will null and void
Posted by
Lynne Butler, BA LLB
This recent article from the Financial Post talks about a case in which a man died after two weeks of marriage, and the court held that his will, which was made before his marriage, was void. Instead of his estate going to his only daughter of a previous marriage, almost everything went to the wife of two weeks. The article contains some excellent information about the effect of marriage on wills across Canada. Click here to read it.
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