Estate Planning Essentials

Transferring wealth is a complex affair.

With new estate laws and ever-increasing complications in families, there are many land mines – and opportunities that need to be understood. The days of just writing up a letter of your last wishes with a signature from a neighbour are over. To protect yourself, your family, your assets and leave a legacy to be proud of you will need to prepare carefully. Nicole Garton has guided hundreds of families through the murky and often troubled waters of organizing their estates. Now is the time to figure this out.

Nicole Garton, B.A., LL.B., TEP, founder and principal of Heritage Law, is a lawyer, mediator and parenting coordinator of family law, wills and estates matters. She is accredited by the Law Society of BC to act as a Family Law Mediator, Parenting Coordinator and Family Law Arbitrator. Nicole is certified by Family Mediation Canada as a Comprehensive Family Mediator and is on the executive of the Canadian Bar Association Wills and Estates and Elder Law Sections.