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Wills and estates 2025 BCSC 343

Lewis v. Jack

The court held that the will required distribution to children alive at the time of distribution, so Jason’s estate did not take a vested share.

  • Will construction
  • Vesting of legacies
  • Beneficiary class
  • Time of distribution
  • Admissibility of extrinsic evidence
  • Will-construction
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Wills and succession 2003 BCSC 563

Bellinger v. Fayers

The court held that Clause 7 of Dorothy May Nuytten’s will was void because it was an in terrorem no-contest clause with no express gift over and was unenforceable against a Wills Variation Act claim.

  • In terrorem clause
  • No-contest/forfeiture clause
  • Gift over
  • Wills variation act
  • Validity of testamentary condition
  • In-terrorem-clause
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