Ontario Executors Glossary
These Ontario Executor Terms Keep You Out of Hot Water
Are you stuck trying to understand some of the terms you run across as an Ontario Executor? No need to Google them. They may mean something different in another province or state. I have prepared your A to Z list in plain English to help.
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a
- Abatement
- Accounting
- Ademption
- Administration, Letters of
- Advice
- Applications
- Appointment, 9:30
- As is
- Asset Inventory
- Assets
- Augmented Estate Inventory
b
- Bank Accounts
- Beneficiary
- Bequest
- Burial Arrangements
- Buy/Sell Agreement
c
- Capital Gains
- Certificates of Appointment of Estate Trustee
- Citation
- Co-executors
- Codicil
- Common-law spouses
- Compensation
- Conflicts of Interest
- Contempt of Court
- Contested Wills
- Corporate Wills
- Corporations
- Corroboration
- Corroboration of Evidence
- Costs
- Court Orders
- Creditors
- Cy-près
d
- Debts
- Deceased
- Dependants
- Designated Assets
- Devise and Bequeath
- Discretion
- Discretionary Trusts
- Dispute Resolution
- Distributive Share
- Divorce
- Domestic Contracts
- Duty
e
- EAT
- Estate
- Estate Administration Tax - EAT
- Estate Administration Tax Penalties
- Estate Information Return EIR
- Estate Taxes
- Estate Trustee
- Estate Trustee During Litigation
- Executor
- Executor Accounts
- Executor’s Bond
- Executor Year
- Experts
f
- Fair Market Value
- Family Business
- Family Law Election
- Fiduciary
- File
- Final Estate Distribution
- Financial Abuse
- Financial Interest
- Form of Accounts
- Funerals
g
- Gift
- Good Faith
- Good Title
- Gratuitous
- Guardians
h
- Hearing
- Hearsay
- Heir
- Held
- Henson Trust
- Holographic wills
- Home
i
- In chambers
- In loco parens
- In specie
- Income
- Income Tax
- Indemnify
- Insurance
- Interim
- Interim Distributions
- Intestacy
- Intestate
- Issue
j
- Joint Assets
- Joint Liability
- Joint or Several
- Joint Ownership
- Joint Tenancy
- Judge
- Judgment
- Judicial Settlement Conference
k
- K
- Killed
- Kin
l
- Laches
- Legal Fees
- Letters Testamentary
- Liability
- Liable
- Limitation Period
- Limitations Act, 2002
- Litigation
m
- Matrimonial Homes
- Mediation
- Memorandum
- Minors
- Minutes of Settlement
- Mirror Wills
- Motion
- Mutual Wills
n
- Negligence
- Net Estate
- Net Family Property
- Non-probate Assets
- Notarized Copy
o
- Officers of the Court
- Opinions of Value
- Original Wills
p
- Partition
- Passing of Accounts
- Per Stirpes
- Pets
- Plaintiff
- Pleading
- Power of Attorney for Property
- Powers
- Precatory
- Preferential Share
- Presumptions
- Principal Residence
- Probate
- Probate Tax
- Property
- Prudent
q
- Questions
r
- Releases
- Remainder Person
- Removal
- Renounce
- Residue
- Resign
- Restitution
- Restriction
- Resulting trust
- Retainer
- Risk
- RTS
- Rules of Court
s
- Separation Agreements
- Service of Documents
- Severance
- Substituted Service
- Succession
- Summary Judgment
- Support Claims
- Swear
t
- Taxes
- Tenancy in Common
- Testamentary Capacity
- Testamentary Trusts
- Transcript
- Trust agreement
- Trustee
u
- Unborns
- Unclean Hands
- Unconscionable
- Undue Influence
- Uniforms
- Unjust Enrichment
v
- Vacate
- Valuables
- Valuations
- Vendor
- Vested
w
- Waivers
- Waste
- Will
- Will Contests
- Winding up
x
- X
y
- Your Honour
z
- Zero
- Zoning
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