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Joint parent/child accounts are a popular tool to help manage an aging parent’s affairs and to finesse fee and regulatory issues. However, two recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions have changed key presumptions about who gets control of those accounts when the parent dies.Joint parent/child accounts are common. As a result, the jurisprudence arising from […]

  • October 15, 2007 October 15, 2007
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