The CPP payment dates for 2024 are: January 29, 2024 February 27, 2024 March 26, 2024 April 26, 2024 May 29, 2024 June 26, 2024 July 29, 2024 August 28, 2024 September 25, 2024 October 29, 2024 November 27, 2024 December 20, 2024 If you receive CPP Retirement Pension or CPP Disability, Children’s or Survivor Benefits, you will receive payment on these dates. If you set up direct deposit, payments will be deposited in your account on these dates ..read more

A Power of Attorney is a legal document where an individual (the donor) appoints someone else (the attorney) to look after the donor’s financial affairs in the event the donor loses capacity to handle his or her own affairs. A Power of Attorney is a critical component of an individual’s estate plan and in many ways, is as important as having a Will. Given that the powers being given to the attorney are so broad and effectively give the attorney unfettered access to the donor’s finances, it is critically important that the individual or individuals being appointed as the attorney are someone th ..read more

EDIT: As of June 15, 2021, it is currently taking approximately 16 to 20 weeks for the Court to issue Grants of Probate in Judicial Centres of Edmonton and Calgary. The processing times may be somewhat faster in smaller Judicial Centres. Which Judicial Centre Do You Submit Your Grant of Probate Application To? Generally speaking, the application for probate must be filed with the surrogate section of the Court of Queen’s Bench which is: closest by road to the place where the deceased lived before their death; or, if the deceased lived outside of Alberta, closest by road to the deceased’s pr ..read more

At no point in recent memory has the need for putting your affairs in order seemed more necessary than right now. Recent events in the world should highlight how important it is to have your estate planning documents in order. If you don’t have a Will, Power of Attorney or a Personal Directive, simply put, you need them. At Field Law, we remain available to help you put these documents in place. Contact us at 587-773-7181 to schedule a call with one of our lawyers ..read more

One of the key tasks of an executor named in a Will is to determine whether the deceased’s Will needs to be probated. What is probate? Simply put, it is a legal process for determining that the Will is valid. It confirms the authority of the person appointed in the Will as the executor to be able to carry out the administration of the estate in accordance with the terms of the Will. The process in Alberta is quite straight forward. The named executor will be required to submit to the Court the deceased’s original Will, along with a number of other Court approved forms, providing information ab ..read more

In L.T. v D.T. Estate (Re), 2019 BCSC 2130, the BC Supreme Court dealt with a difficult and challenging application advanced by a surviving spouse for the right to use her deceased husband’s sperm for the purposes of future reproductive use. The deceased, referred to in the decision simply as Mr. T, died suddenly on October 2, 2018. At the date of his death, the deceased and his wife had been married for three years and the two had recently become parents. It was known to all those who knew the couple that they wanted more children. The day after her husband’s death, the deceased’s wife contac ..read more