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Financial Advisor Assisting Senior Couple

Can a surviving spouse split her income with her deceased spouse?

More on pension income splitting for the year of death

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How the CRA takes the life out of life interest trusts

If your business-owner client uses these trusts, special planning is required

  • By: Kevin Wark
  • October 25, 2019 October 25, 2019
  • 13:00
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Are co-executors a good idea?

The pros and cons of two (or more) people managing an estate

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Planning for blended families using trusts

Complex families can have complex needs

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Tories, Grits pledge help for green renos

Both parties say they’ll help voters pay for improvements to their homes

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How to deal with income and capital beneficiaries

Executors may have to balance conflicting interests

  • By: James Dolan
  • September 20, 2019 September 20, 2019
  • 15:00
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How the global privacy debate is playing out in Canada

Legislation affects disclosures on trusts, real estate and corporations

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Hanging on to HNW assets

A large proportion of wealth managers regard intergenerational wealth transfer as an opportunity to win clients

  • By: Staff
  • August 22, 2019 August 22, 2019
  • 15:07

Can your client disinherit a child?

A court decision in Nova Scotia has implications for estate planning

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Family conflict, estate planning and the value of advice

Advisors’ influence on family unity is growing

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MFDA bans former advisor who acted as executor for clients

The former rep was also a beneficiary of a client's estate and accepted her Air Miles

  • By: Staff
  • July 24, 2019 July 24, 2019
  • 12:18
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Selling real estate? The CRA is watching

What clients need to know about reporting transactions

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How to handle rental properties in estates

Executors must balance responsibilities to tenants and beneficiaries

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Eligible dividends and the OAS clawback

Interest income versus the dividend tax credit

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Deciding if an IPP is right for your client

Consider these plan funding details for a hypothetical medco

Estate planning and the disabled beneficiary

Consider these factors before establishing a Henson trust

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An expedient alternative to the post-mortem pipeline

A strategy for business-owner clients to mitigate double taxation at death

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Is pension income splitting available for the year of death?

Help your client’s family by understanding the tax rules

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Ontario to eliminate probate tax on estates under $50,000

The provincial budget also said the government would extend the deadline for filing estate returns

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Tax implications of divorce, Part 2

Settling different types of property

Couple getting financial advice from consultant at home

Tax implications of divorce, Part 1

Dividing assets and navigating tax credits

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Why to cheer the IPP’s defined benefit provision

The DB provision will always provide a larger benefit than the DC provision

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Managing estate holdbacks

Helping executors decide how much to keep aside for complicated estates

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The clearance certificate: what it is, and why it matters

Providing executors with peace of mind

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Multiple taxation on death: the taxpayer’s nightmare

Steps to limit tax in other jurisdictions