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Wills and estates 2025 BCSC 331

Stevens v. Esak

The court upheld Arthur Stevens’s 2019 will, set aside the later transfer of his property interest to Patricia Esak, dismissed Esak’s tort claims, and ordered sale of the property.

  • Testamentary capacity
  • Undue influence
  • Inter vivos property transfer
  • Joint tenancy and right of survivorship
  • Partition of property
  • Conversion
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Wills and estates 2025 BCSC 72

Aujla v. Dhaliwal

The court refused special costs on a duplicative WESA petition, finding the filing ill-advised but not reprehensible. Ordinary costs of the applications were awarded to the parents.

  • Spousal status under wesa
  • Intestacy
  • Special costs
  • Abuse of process
  • Duplicative proceedings
  • Stay/consolidation
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Family law 2022 BCSC 1676

Lee v. Chau

The court struck claims about the Aubrey Property and related properties as barred by collateral attack and res judicata, but allowed the remaining family claim to continue subject to $20,000 security for costs.

  • Res judicata
  • Collateral attack
  • Issue estoppel
  • Cause of action estoppel
  • Resulting trust
  • Constructive trust
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Wills and estates 2020 BCSC 373

Knelsen Estate

The court ordered each petitioner to bear their own costs in this estate dispute, finding the litigation was reasonably brought and justified an exception to the usual costs rule.

  • Spousal status under wesa
  • Costs allocation in estate litigation
  • Administration of estate
  • Exceptions to costs-follow-the-event
  • Wesa
  • Estate-litigation-costs
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Wills and estates 2019 BCSC 1089

Landriault Estate (Re)

The court held that the deceased had not terminated her marriage-like relationship with Thomas Harlton, declared him a spouse under WESA, and removed the notice of dispute.

  • Spousal status under wesa
  • Termination of common-law (marriage-like) relationship
  • Preferential share entitlement
  • Summary proceedings and removal of notice of dispute
  • Enduring power of attorney / substitute decision-making
  • Wesa-spousal-status
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