Wills &
Estates
Estate planning is crucial to ensure your wishes are followed after death. Though a Will is necessary, a Power of Attorney and Healthcare directive allows for additional contingencies to be established around finances, property, and healthcare while you are living. We are here to help prepare for life’s eventualities.
Our Wills & Estate Law services
Will Preparation
We can assist you to have a Will compliant with provincial legislation that ensures you have appointed an Executor, a Guardian for any minor children, and that gives clear directions on how your assets are to be divided.
Estate Planning
At KSL, we do more than just take your instructions. We give you advice on how to minimize conflict and expense for your Estate and mitigate its impact from the probate process. We do our best to help make sure your family gets the most from your Estate as quickly as possible.
Power of Attorney Preparation
A power of attorney is usually active the day it is signed and survives incapacity. With changes to the legislation in 2022, we advise on the impacts and choices you now have available to appoint someone to help manage your finances while you are still living but possibly in need some extra help.
Guardian in Healthcare Preparation
A Guardian in Health Care, also referred to as a Personal Directive or Living Will, allows you to appoint a person to make health care decisions for you when you do not have capacity to make the decisions yourself. This appointment could be for a short time and include end-of-life decisions, or it could be for a prolonged period if you develop a disease that interferes with your capacity and your doctor assesses that you can no longer make decisions yourself.
Corporate Executorship
Not everyone has a family member or friend they can appoint as Executor, or maybe you would prefer someone outside the family to be your Executor. Lawyers at our firm can act as an Executor for certain estates. If you would like for KSL to be your executor, please let your lawyer know, and they will discuss options available to you.
Our Wills & Estate Law Team
Wills & Estate Law Insights
I have been appointed under a Power of Attorney; what are the rules?
The Powers of Attorney Act was amended in April of 2022, introducing new rules for Attorneys to follow when they
What If I don’t have an executor?
It is not uncommon for us to hear from our clients that they haven’t prepared a Will because they don’t have a person they could ask to be their Executor.
Do grandparents have “rights” in Nova Scotia?
Changes to legislation in the past few years have prompted some people to ask questions about whether grandparents now have