Cavell Leitch has considerable experience working for executors, trustees and beneficiaries of estates, settlors, trustees and beneficiaries of trusts and charitable trusts. 

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Our experience includes representing clients in the District Court, High Court, and Courts of Appeal as well as in arbitrations, mediations and negotiations.

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We have an in-depth understanding of the relevant regulatory framework in trusts and estates including family protections claims, testamentary promise claims and claims under the Wills Act and Trustee Act.

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Recent work:

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• Representing adult children who were excluded from their estranged father’s will in a family protection claim;

• Representing adult children against a step parent who frustrated an award of their entitlements from their parent’s will;

• Representing an aging client and his natural children to protect his assets from a subsequent relationship;

• Representing beneficiaries of a will against which a testamentary promise claim was brought;

• Representing a charitable trust which was the beneficiary of a will against which family protection claims were brought;

• Representing the executrix of a will against which family protection claims and testamentary promise claims were brought;

• Representing the beneficiaries of a prior will who were excluded from a subsequent document which purported to be a will, but which did not meet the requirements of a will;

• Representing beneficiaries of an estate in reaching a deed of family arrangement;

• Representing an executor of an estate of a prior will in obtaining probate.