Canada: Crucial Lessons from Recent Will Cases **
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #9 – October 31, 2025 OPENING A Last Will and Testament (also known as “will”) is such a beautiful thing, but not necessarily. A few 2025 cases caught my eye: Brink v. Reeves Estate, 2025 BCCA 295, Madhani v. Fast, 2025 […]
Boomers blamed for Britain’s inequality and economic woes. I’m outraged by such a stupid notion!”**
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #8 – Sept. 30, 2025 OPENING I need to share. I read something the other day. “It’s wrong to blame boomers for Britain’s inequality and economic woes. It’s more complicated than that, says Rosa Anderson” 1 This follows journalist Phillip Inman’s […]
Exploitation of an Elderly Person (Chapter 2)– The 1-2-3 of Bringing Abusers to Justice!**
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #7 – July 31, 2025 OPENING Elder Financial Abuse – take two! A few months ago, I wrote an article on the subject of elder abuse. It was a case comment. I examined a judgment rendered on topic. I explained the […]
Exploitation of an Elderly Person – The 1-2-3 of Bringing Abusers to Justice!**
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* Exploitation of an Elderly Person – The 1-2-3 of Bringing Abusers to Justice!** By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #3 – March 31, 2025 OPENING It is said, “Beware the Ides of March!” That’s a date, famously associated with the assassination of Julius Caesar, making it a […]
The Curious Tax Case of Marlene Enns – or How a widow is a spouse: CRA**
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #2 – Feb. 28, 2025 RRSP & TAXE$$$$ØØØØ! OPENING In general terms, this case is about responsibility for the debt of a third party. More precisely, this is where a man died leaving unpaid taxes. And Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) went […]
CANADA/QUEBEC IMBROGLIO: Capital Gains Inclusion Rate Increase **
Gold’s Legal Minute*GLM* By Allan Gold, lawyer Montreal and elder law attorney Vol. 16, #1 – January 31, 2025 ↑↓↑↓↑↓↑??↑↓↑↓↑↓↑??↑↓↑↓↑↓↑?? BREAKING NEWS OTTAWA, Canada, Jan. 30 (CBC ) – “The federal government confirmed on Friday that it’s reversing course on increases to the capital gains tax first announced in the last federal budget. The government […]