This paper describes the “nuts and bolts” of estate-related special chambers applications, a tool regularly used by estate litigators to manage the myriad of issues that can come up in an estate litigation file. Issues discussed include requesting a hearing date, determining the best time to set an application, filing timelines, pleadings to be filed, the format of the brief required, and an idea of those times when a special chambers hearing will not work. Precedents are attached.

This paper was presented at LESA’s Estate Litigation program in February 2014.