22
Dec
Testamentary Freedom- with Limits. Your rights and obligations to family members in estate planning.
In Alberta, we are mostly free to leave our estates to whomever we please, as long as we adequately provide for our spouse or common law partner (Adult Interdependent Partner) and dependent children (and sometimes grandchildren or great grand children if we are raising them). From a policy perspective, it makes sense: morally and legally we should support our partners and dependent children. Let's look at the definition of each one of these family members in turn, and what it means to 'adequately provide' for them.
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