- Resources by subject area
- Aboriginal
- Administrative
- ADR
- Animal
- Banking
- Bankruptcy & insolvency
- Church
- Civil law
- Civil practice
- Commercial
- Common law
- Communications
- Competition
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional
- Construction
- Consumer
- Contracts
- Corporate
- Criminal
- Crown liability
- Damages & remedies
- Debtor-creditor
- Disability
- Education
- Employment
- Entertainment
- Environmental
- Evidence
- Family
- Fiduciary
- Food
- Forestry
- Health
- Hospitaility
- Human rights
- Immigration
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International
- Internet & computer
- Labour
- Landlord & tenant
- Maritime
- Media
- Military
- Mining, oil & gas, energy
- Motor vehicle
- Municipal & planning
- OH&S
- Pensions & seniors
- Personal injury
- Philosophy & history of law
- Poverty
- Practice management
- Privacy & information
- Privilege & confidentiality
- Professional responsibility
- Professions
- Public
- Real property
- Securities
- Sports
- Statutory Interpretation
- Tax
- Torts
- Transportation
- Trusts & equity
- Unjustified enrichment
- Wills & estates
- Women's rights
- Research aids
- Case law
- Courts
- Legislation & bylaws
- Libraries
- Governments
- Judges
- Lawyers & organizations
- Law students
- Paralegal resources
- Law reform
You are here
General wills & estates law resources
Thu, 2007-01-11 21:43 — Admin1
Books
Canadian
General
o Allen & Quinlan, Estate Planning Handbook, 4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2012)
o Armstrong, Estate Administration: A Solicitor's Reference Manual (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o Appleby, E., Legal Research Guide to Wills and Succession 2006 (Fredericton, N.B.: Maritime Law Book, 2006)
o * Canadian Estate Administration Guide (North York: CCH, looseleaf)
o * Canadian Estate Planning Guide (North York: CCH, looseleaf) ( 2 volumes)
o Doyle, K., Asset and Wealth Protection, 2nd ed. (Markham: LexisNexis, 2009)
o Easterbrook & Herlehy, Mediating Estate Disputes (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2003)
o Estate Planning and Administration: Reference Materials (Toronto: Law Society of Upper Canada, 2004)
o Foster, S., You can't take it with you: the common-sense guide to estate planning for Canadians. 5th ed. (Mississauga: Wiley, 2007)
o Halsbury’s laws of Canada, Gifts (Markham: LexisNexis, 2010)
o * Halsbury's Laws of Canada: Wills and estates, 1st ed. (Markham: LexisNexis, 2007)
o * Histrop & Cappon, Estate Planning Precedents: A solicitor's manual (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf) (2 volumes)
o Greenan, J., The executor's handbook, 3rd ed. (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2007)
o Howlett, D., Estate Matters in Atlantic Canada: the Law of Wills and Trusts, Estate Planning and Estate Settlement (Scarborough: Carswell, 1999)
o Hull, R., Advising families on succession planning: the high price of not talking (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005)
o Hull, R., Macdonell, Sheard and Hull on Probate Practice, 4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1996)
o Jenkins & Scott, Duties of Estate Trustees, Guardians and Attorneys (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2000)
o Jenset, Guide to Estate & Trust Accounting (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o * Komorowska, G., Guide to wills & estates (Gibsons, B.C.: Evin Ross Publications, looseleaf)
o Lewis, D., Implementing Estate Freezes, 3rd ed. (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2011)
o Merrick, P., The trusted advisor's survival kit (Markham: LexisNexis, 2009)
o O'Brien's encyclopaedia of forms, 11th ed.: Wills and Trusts (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)
o * Oosterhoff, Oosterhoff on Wills and Succession, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2007)
o Ouellette, L., A practical guide to estates and trusts, 2nd ed. (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2005)
o Schnurr, B., Estate Litigation, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o Spenceley, R., The estate planner's handbook, 3rd ed. (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2009)
o The Law Society of Upper Canada, Special Lectures 2010: A Medical-Legal Approach to Estate Planning and Decision Making for Older Clients (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010)
o * Thériault, C., Widdifield on executors and trustees, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o Van Cauwenberghe, C., Wealth Planning Strategies for Canadians 2010 (Toronto: Carswell, 2009)
o Whaley et al., Capacity to Marry and the Estate Plan (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2010)
Alberta
o Alberta Law Reform Institute, Estate Administration (Edmonton: Alberta Law Reform Institute, 2011)
o Making a personal directive in Alberta (University of Alberta Legal Resource Centre, 2009)
British Columbia
o * Annotated Estates Practice (British Columbia: CLE, annual)
o * B.C. Probate and Estate Administration Practice Manual (British Columbia: CLE, looseleaf) (2 volumes)
o * Bice et al., Estate Planning & Wealth Preservation (British Columbia: CLE, looseleaf)
o Carter, T., So you've been appointed executor (North Vancouver: Self Counsel Press, 2002)
o * Hunter & McLellan, Financial and estate planning for the mature client in British Columbia (Markham: Butterworths, looseleaf)
o Irvine, F., British Columbia Court Forms (McLachlin and Taylor), 2nd ed. (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, looseleaf) (4 volumes) – Chapter 26 covers estates litigation
Ontario
o Botnick, D., Probate Guide for Ontario: Step-by-Step Guide to Probating an Estate, 10th ed. (Self Counsel Press: Toronto)
o Gibbs et al., Practical guide to Ontario estate administration, 5th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2006)
o Morton & Stone, Essential estate administration in Ontario (North York: CCH, 2002)
o Rintoul, M., Ontario estate administration, 5th ed. (Markham: LexisNexis, 2005)
o Rintoul, M., Practitioner's Guide to Estate Practice in Ontario, 4th ed. (Toronto: Butterworths, 2004)
o Schnurr, B., The annotated Ontario estates statutes, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
English
o Kendrick & Robinson, Their Rights: Advanced Directives and Living Wills Explored (London: Age Concern England, 2002)
o Morris & Leach, The Rule Against Perpetuities (London: Stevens, 1956)
o Martyn & Caddick, Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate, 19th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2013)
o Sherrin, Williams & Barlow, Williams on Wills, v. 1 – Law of Wills, 9th ed. (London: LexisNexis, 2008)
o Sherrin, Williams & Barlow, Williams on Wills, v. 2 – Precedents and Statutes, 9th ed. (London: LexisNexis, 2008)
o Sherrin, Williams & Barlow, Williams on Wills, 2nd (cumulative) supp, 9th ed. (London: LexisNexis, 2008)
o Thurston, J., Estate Planning for the Middle Income Client (Haywards Heath, U.K.: Tottel, 2005)
o Winegarten et al., Tristram and Coote's probate practice, 30th ed. (London: Butterworths, 2006)
Blogs
Stan Rule: http://rulelaw.blogspot.com/
Hull & Hull LLP: http://estatelaw.hullandhull.com
Websites
Canada
General
Human Resources Development Canada: Dealing with death
British Columbia
British Columbia. Ministry of Health Services. Vital Statistics Agency, Death Registration & Certificates
British Columbia Court Services page on Wills and Estates
British Columbia. Ministry Assistance with Funeral Costs
Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch) Guide to Wills and Estates
Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia. Estate Administration
Unclaimed Property Society of British Columbia
University of British Columbia Legal Aid Manual: Wills and Estates
Ontario
Will & Estate Planning
International
Intestacy (Sydney: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, 2007)
Legal forms
Standard form contracts from Dynamic Lawyers
