Foreign beneficiaries: It’s complicated

By Margaret O’Sullivan ( April 29, 2019, 8:56 AM EDT) -- With increased mobility of people and their assets, increasingly estates have a multijurisdictional dimension. A multitude of special considerations come into play which must be identified and dealt with if an estate has foreign beneficiaries or executors or other legal representatives which increase the complexity of the estate administration. This is the first of a four-part series of articles highlighting a number of them and is written from the perspective of Canadian and Ontario law....