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Civil-contempt 2026 BCSC 356

Bringeland Estate (Re)

The court found Dawne Bringeland in contempt of a 2025 order to deliver estate records and pass accounts, imposed $10,000 in fines, and awarded special costs.

  • Contempt-of-court
  • Failure-to-deliver-estate-assets-and-records
  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Service-of-process
  • Sanctions-and-fines
  • Special-costs
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Estate-law 2026 BCSC 17

Gowans Estate (Re)

The court ordered the executor to bear his own costs of passing accounts and awarded BC SPCA special costs from the estate after a contested accounting.

  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Executor-remuneration
  • Special-costs
  • Reimbursement-of-estate-expenses
  • Speculation-and-vacancy-tax
  • Estate-administration
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Wills-and-estates 2025 BCSC 2608

Dewberry Estate (Re)

The court dismissed cross-applications to remove an estate administrator and to release funds, but ordered disclosure steps and payment of prior costs from the administrator’s share.

  • Removal-of-administrator
  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Estate-distribution
  • Disclosure-and-trust-accounting
  • Costs-orders
  • Vexatious-litigation
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Trusts-and-estates 2025 BCSC 2564

Halani Estate (Re)

The court passed interim trust and estate accounts for 2022–2025, approved full-indemnity special costs, and dispensed with the respondent’s signature on the orders.

  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Trust-administration
  • Estate-administration
  • Special-costs-(full-indemnity)
  • Remuneration
  • Rule-25-13
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Estate-law 2025 BCSC 2501

Popove (Re)

The court summarily passed the Public Guardian and Trustee’s accounts for Rockey Allan Popove’s estate, dismissed Audrey Laferriere’s standing application, and awarded special costs from her share.

  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Standing-to-oppose-accounts
  • Costs-special/full-indemnity
  • Duties-of-committee-under-patients-property-act
  • Occupation-rent
  • Caregiver-payments
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Estate-law 2025 BCSC 2173

Gowans Estate (Re)

A passing of accounts case in which several claimed estate disbursements were disallowed and the executor’s remuneration was reduced to $15,000, or 1.5% of the gross estate.

  • Executor's-remuneration
  • Disbursements-and-expenses
  • Speculation-and-vacancy-tax
  • Pet-care-expenses
  • Supporting-documentation
  • Passing-of-accounts
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Wills-and-estates 2025 BCSC 2163

Matossian Estate v. Clark Estate

The court removed an estate administrator who used estate funds for personal legal fees, failed to prudently manage assets, and did not adequately explain the misconduct.

  • Removal-of-executor/administrator
  • Breach-of-fiduciary-duty
  • Misappropriation-of-estate-funds
  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Preservation-orders-/-mareva-injunction
  • Removal-of-executor
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Estates-and-trusts 2025 BCSC 1784

Pachaly (Re)

The court dismissed a beneficiary’s request for access to an executor’s iPad or iCloud to obtain Apple Notes metadata, finding no strong evidence justifying that exceptional intrusion.

  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Document-production
  • Metadata
  • Inspection-of-electronic-devices
  • Icloud-access
  • Executor-remuneration
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Patients-property-act 2025 BCSC 1646

Cameron (Re)

The registrar allowed only $10,000 of the committee’s claimed 2022–23 legal fees under the Patients Property Act and disallowed the balance.

  • Passing-of-accounts
  • Committee-reimbursement
  • Extraordinary-expenses
  • Assessment-of-legal-fees
  • Effect-of-prior-court-orders
  • Variation-of-order
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Wills-and-estates 2025 BCSC 1357

Malkin Estate (Re)

The court removed an executor/trustee for failing to provide formal estate accounts and for a perceived conflict arising from potential tax-issue claims, then appointed substitute executors.

  • Removal-of-executor
  • Accounting-by-trustee
  • Conflict-of-interest
  • Trustee-remuneration
  • Reference-to-registrar
  • Executor-removal
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