Law360 Canada ( March 13, 2020, 9:04 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the defendants from summary judgment declaring that the plaintiff had a life interest, with exclusive possession, in the parties’ family cottage. The parties were all siblings. The cottage property was owned by their mother. During the mother’s lifetime, all the children were given generous access to the cottage and all of them used it. In 1995, the mother transferred the cottage property from herself alone to herself and the appellants as joint tenants with the respondent receiving a life interest. The mother did not inform any of her children that she was making these arrangements. The mother died in 2007. The respondent never learned she was on title as an additional transferee until five years after the mother’s death. In 2013, the appellants decided to sell the cottage. The respondent, however, did not agree to release her life interest without compensation and ultimately commenced this action....