Earlier this year, I wrote a short blog on the right of step-children to claim an inheritance from a step-parent or step-grandparents. The upshot was that, absent a specific bequest in the will, step-children do not have a right of inheritance from a step-parent. This conclusion was recently made even more forcefully by the B.C. Court of Appeal in the decision Peri v ...
If Cinderella had not married a prince, she might have cared a bit more about her legal status as a stepchild to her evil stepmother. It is common ground that the relationships between stepparents and stepchildren can be difficult. Vince Dixon of the Chicago Tribune recently provided sage guidance on how to mitigate some of those potential problems. Communication is ...
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