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and the WESA’s estate administration provisions. The half-day course on
the second day, “Estates Applications under the New Rules”, will examine
the rules and forms in more detail, particularly the procedures to apply for
administration grants. The full-day course is aimed at all practitioners,
while the half-day course is geared more toward paralegals, legal support
staff and junior lawyers. Peter Ramsay, Q.C., will co-chair each of the
February 2014 courses, with Genevieve N. Taylor (Vancouver), Margaret R.
Sasges (Victoria) and Geoffrey W. White (Kelowna).
CLEBC’S WILLS AND ESTATES PUBLICATIONS
It has been a busy year for Jonathan Vogt, our senior legal editor, who is
responsible for our many wills and estates publications. He has supported
the work of our stellar volunteers by coordinating and editing updates to all
our wills and estates resources—both print and online.
Since 1979, the B.C. Probate and Estate Administration Practice Manual has
been the first resource for the B.C. legal profession when handling probate
and estate administration matters. The current edition features alerts
throughout the chapters for the WESA and the new Probate Rules. The next
(2014) edition will arrive in February, in time for the February 2014 CLEBC
courses. Subscriptions include online access and forms and precedents on
CD-ROM.
B.C. Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation is a comprehensive guide to
help you provide effective estate planning strategies and tools for your
clients and their complex portfolios. All the key knowledge is here, from
valuable overview commentary to details of tax planning techniques and
drafting considerations. The update to Estate Planning will be published in
June 2014.
Wills Precedents: An Annotated Guide has been immensely popular since
it was first published in 1998. This collection of sample will clauses and documents
includes representation agreements and many other B.C.-focused
precedents. Peter W. Bogardus, Q.C., and Mary B. Hamilton and Sadie L.
Wetzel of Davis LLP have created an outstanding and practical resource.
We’ve recently added a “document builder” to Wills Precedents. Users can
select desired clauses, create complete document templates, save the templates
for future use and download the complete document to the user’s
computer. The next edition will arrive in February 2014.
Annotated Estates Practice 2013, a portable consolidation of core wills and
estates law materials, includes key statutes annotated by leading estates
lawyers. The current edition includes the full consolidated text of the WESA
and of the new Probate Rules and forms, as well as updated narrative