Estate Planning

Helping Pass Wealth From One Generation to the Next

Do you want to reduce taxes and probate fees?
Do you want to ensure an orderly and effective passage of wealth to your heirs?

Reducing the Cost of Dying

We can help you reduce probate taxes, reduce income taxes, and coordinate efforts to reduce death taxes on account of the United States and other jurisdictions. Our law firm focuses on estates, trusts and incapacity. Our lawyers lecture and publish in this area, providing education to the public and to other lawyers.

Improving the Lives of Beneficiaries

We help clients across a wide range, whether their affairs are complex or simple.

Basic and complex wills.
Trusts and corporate structuring.
Powers of attorney, living wills and incapacity planning.
Assisting clients with diminished mental capacity to put wills and other documents into place.

John Poyser, B.A., LL.B.

Support to other team members around estate planning, trusts, disabled heirs, blended families, Canadian and International tax and capacity assessment.
Author of Capacity and Undue Influence and co-author of Taxation of Trusts and Estates.

Andrew Torbiak, B.Comm(Hons), LL.B.

General estate planning
Board member, St. James Assiniboia 55+ Senior Centre
Member, Businesses and Organizations Support Seniors (B.O.S.S.)

Quotes

“A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.”

—Thomas Scott

“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

—Benjamin Franklin

“The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.”

—J. Paul Getty

“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

—Winston Churchill

“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There is a strange charm in the thoughts of good legacy, or the hopes of an estate which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.”

—Miguel De Cervantes

“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”

—Hannah Arendt

“Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.”

—Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”

—Emily Bronte

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

—Winston Churchill

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”

—Ambrose Bierce

“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

—Woody Allen

“The object of estate planning is to die well.”

—John Poyser

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to have control of your estate.”

—Woody Allen

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