Estate Planning and Administration

Legge & Legge has one of the largest repositories of wills and trusts maintained by a small firm in Ontario. Our lawyers and staff provide estate planning and services to clients who wish to have a will, trust, or powers of attorney drafted or revised. We also act in the area of estate administration as estate solicitors, estate trustees, and notaries public.

Usually will and estate appointments will be scheduled to take place in our office. However, appointments may also take place over the phone or online by zoom: please ask. We are also able to conduct document signing remotely over the internet in many cases.

Some of the specific services we provide include: estate administration, incapacity and elder law, trust and estate planning, will and power of attorney drafting, and notarization of documents. Outlined below are some of these services. If you have questions, please email Mary Stokes mstokes@leggeandlegge.com or phone 416-923-1776 and leave a message for her to call you.

ESTATE ADMINISTRATION

Legge & Legge has helped clients administer estates in Ontario for over seventy years. We work closely with our clients and other professionals, including accountants, appraisers, realtors, financial advisors and bankers to obtain probate (now called a certificate of estate trustee) when necessary, to wind up estates smoothly and expeditiously, and to convert these into on-going testamentary trusts where the will so stipulates.

Executors, Trustees, Attorneys and Guardians

John Legge and Mary Stokes are experienced in acting as Executors, Trustees, and Attorneys under powers of attorney for clients who do not have appropriate family members or others to perform these functions.

ELDER LAW and Incapacity Administration

See Elder Law/Elder Care under Our Services

Wills, TRUSTs, POwers of Attorney

Estate planning involves discussing with our clients the impact that various alternatives will have on their estates when drafting a will, power of attorney or trust. Considerations include tax implications, sibling relationships, domestic contracts, beneficiary designations, the role of the Office of the Children's Lawyer and Office of the Public Trustee, the maintenance of children, the protection of beneficiaries with a current or potential disability, the requirements for bonds in cases of intestacy or out of jurisdiction trustees, and the possible consequences of family breakdown on the will, power of attorney, trust or eventual estate.

We believe professional estate planning and administration should be available regardless of means. Feel free to ask about fees.

Our lawyers and staff are able to make house calls or hospital visits when necessary or requested.