Estate Administration

Probate Issues

An executor or administrator often needs help with the probate process. We can prepare applications and pass accounts. Sometimes probate can be avoided. We can identify appropriate situations and guide the family.

Paralegal Team

The paralegal helping with the estate works exclusively on estates and estates only. Extensively trained, paralegal effort is used to generate probate applications, call in assets, prepare accounts, make distributions, and wind up estates.

Solving Problems

We can help executors and administrators solve problems:

Dealing with uncooperative beneficiaries.
Warding away creditors.
Dealing with assets in foreign jurisdictions.
Responding to community property claims.
Restructuring corporate assets

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

Responsible for the Probate Department at Wealth and Estate Law Group
Support around probate process and special issues

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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