If a person dies without a will, their estate becomes 'intestate,' and the province's Succession Act will set how the dead's assets are distributed.
Saskatchewan lawyers see uptick in will preparations during COVID-19 pandemic
“Technology is meant to make things more accessible and more secure — it’s time to modernize Ontario’s estate laws in order to help Canadians finish their estate planning documents online.”to sign or store a will online in Ontario, the survey found 84 per cent of Canadians already believed that digitally signing a will was legal, while 92 per cent of Canadians believed it was legal to store wills online.
Bury told Global News her company saw a 500 per cent spike in demand from Canadians looking to start or finish their wills shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping the country.“Creating a will is something that can be easy to procrastinate. You don’t really know when you’re going to need it, and a lot of people — especially who are younger — think, ‘well I don’t need to get one in place until I’m a lot older,'” she said.
“COVID-19 really reminded people that, unfortunately, the unexpected can happen any time. And a lot of people were looking to check this off their list, knowing that if they were to get sick with COVID-19 or even if they weren’t, it was just better to have these documents in place.”
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