Author: Maya Scott

Estate Planning during a Pandemic

This article highlights the importance of estate planning during the Covid-19 pandemic: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/pandemic-pushes-health-and-will-planning-to-the-forefront-in-sask-1.6216837 Our office provides assistance in all areas of estate planning. Contact...

Family Law & Legal Fees

Unless a lawyer is assisting you with an uncontested divorce, she likely will be unable to tell you exactly how much resolving a legal...

Executor Liability

More often than not, people who act as executors have never done so before and may never do so again.  Being a first time...

Getting a Tax Clearance Certificate

Before distributing all of an estate, our office recommends that an executor apply for a tax clearance certificate from Canada Revenue Agency.  An executor...

Saskatchewan’s Incarceration Epidemic

Further to James Scott’s work on sentencing bias, Lindsay Hjorth has authored the following paper:  Saskatchewan’s Incarceration Epidemic – final copy

A Cautionary Tale: R. v. Thorsteinson

In a recent decision, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in R. v. Thorsteinson considered whether a person may take back a gift of land into joint...