Program Papers
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50th Annual Refresher – Audio Recordings and Program Materials
LESA’s 50th Annual Refresher focuses on practice excellence. This program provides substantive legal content in the areas of civil litigation, family law, transactions, and wills and estates, and includes tips to strengthen your practice.
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50th Annual Refresher Program Materials
LESA’s 50th Annual Refresher focused on practice excellence. This program provided substantive legal content in the areas of civil litigation, family law, real estate, business, and wills and estates, and included tips to strengthen your practice.
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50th Annual Refresher: Wills and Estates Sessions – Audio Recordings and Program Materials
$195.00This package contains audio recordings and program materials from the wills and estates sessions held at the 50th Annual Refresher. Listen to presenters and panel members discuss a range of topics relevant to estate planning, administration, and litigation, and follow along with their papers and presentation materials.
This wills and estates package includes audio recordings and program materials from the following sessions:
- Boilerplate Clauses in Wills: Faithful Friends or Vague Verbiage — Shel Laven
- The Story of “Emma” and “Isabella”: The Litigious Embryos and Other Tales — Nancy L. Golding QC
- Do You and Your Client Each Have What It Takes? — Helen R. Ward
- Restrictions on Testamentary Freedom — Malcom F. Pritchard
These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s 50th Annual Refresher: Practice Excellence held in Lake Louise from May 7–9, 2017.
These documents are electronic products in Adobe PDF format and MP3 format. Shortly after your purchase, you will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to download these products.
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52nd Annual Refresher: Family Law (Program Materials)
Materials from the 52nd Annual Refresher cover a wide variety of family law topics, including court practices and upcoming changes, legislative changes with the Family Statutes Amendment Act and Bill C-78, arbitration, as well as considerations related to death and divorce issues. Some materials also take a multi-disciplinary approach to discuss the intersection of family law issues with considerations in other areas such as corporate law, estate matters, criminal law, and immigration law.
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8 Clauses That You Should Consider Before [Your Client] Dies
$45.00This paper reviews 8 clauses that aren’t commonly found in Alberta wills, but that should be considered during estate planning discussions and drafting. The estate planning provisions discussed include: digital assets; evidence of inability to act; definition of grandchild; personal property; advances; joint assets; statement of intention; and real property interests.
This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Drafting Wills and Trusts seminar held in Edmonton on February 28, 2017 and in Calgary on March 7, 2017.
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A Practical Guide to Commencing a Joint Family Venture Claim; A View from the Trenches
$55.00This paper provides a practical guide to bringing claims for unjust enrichment and constructive trust as a result of common-law relationships. Topics covered include: status to bring a claim, practical advice on bringing the claim and other procedural issues involving things like notices to admit facts, affidavits of records and questioning. A helpful Plaintiff’s Check List and Trial Preparation Check List are attached.
This paper was presented at the Constructive Trust Claims seminar in January, 2014.
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A Review of Some of the Evidentiary Issues in Estate Litigation
$65.00This paper discusses some of the evidentiary rules and presumptions that apply to estate litigation. It also discusses sources of evidence that may be adduced to support a litigant’s arguments. In particular, it provides an overview of the law of evidence under the Alberta Evidence Act and Alberta jurisprudence. As well, evidentiary issues regarding testamentary capacity, undue influence, and interpretation and rectification of wills are also discussed. In addition, important evidentiary presumptions are highlighted, such as the presumption of advancement and the presumption of resulting trust.
This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Estate Litigation Fundamentals seminar held in Edmonton on April 5, 2017 and in Calgary on April 12, 2017.
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A Time to Get Together: A Lawyer’s Role in Mediation
$65.00Author: Sid Kobewka
This paper discusses both evaluative mediation and interest based mediation. It also explores how a lawyer’s role in mediation differs from that in litigation, requiring a shift in attitude from an adversarial approach to a mutual problem solving approach.
The paper discusses how to prepare for mediation and draft a mediation brief; it also provides practical tools, including a mediation plan template and a sample issues/interests worksheet.
This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution program in Calgary on February 19, 2020 and in Edmonton on February 25, 2020.
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Accounting: The Personal Representative’s Duty and What Must Be Provided
$55.00The personal representative’s duty to account to those interested in an estate is central to that role, yet it is often poorly understood. This paper examines that duty to account so that lawyers can better prepare personal representatives for their role. It discusses forms of accounts, and provides examples of disbursements and receipts of capital and income. It also reviews types of accounting, including informal accounting, formal accounting, and applications to dispense with formal accounting. Additional accounting considerations for personal representatives are also discussed. The paper includes, as appendices, a sample clause for a retainer letter, a sample inventory of property and debts (Schedule 5), and a sample estate accounting financial statement.
This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Estate Administration Fundamentals seminar held in Edmonton on November 30, 2016 and in Calgary on December 7, 2016.
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Addressing the Requirement to Consider Tax Consequences Under the Prudent Investor Rules
$45.00This paper was presented at the Wills & Estates’ 44th Annual Refresher Course held in May 2011.
The paper discusses issues of trustee liability. Within that discussion, the author first deals with Alberta’s Prudent Investor Rules and then with a more detailed analysis of the tax consequences that a trustee should address.
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Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act – Moving from Theory to Practice
$55.00This paper was presented at the Wills & Estates’ 44th Annual Refresher Course held in May 2011.
This paper focuses specifically on trusteeships while describing the similarities between the Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act and the old Dependent Adults Act. It also provides a guide to making several trustee court applications. Precedents for an urgent application, a discharge attorney and appoint trustee application, and a limited trustee application are included.
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Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act – New Protection for Vulnerable Albertans
$45.00This paper was presented at the Wills & Estates’ 44th Annual Refresher Course held in May 2011.
The paper reviews capacity assessments under the Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act [AGTA] and the role of the review officer. It also includes a discussion of the protective measures and the specific decision making and emergency health care provisions under the AGTA. Finally, the paper ends with an overview of how the AGTA has been implemented so far.
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