Law360 Canada ( July 23, 2021, 5:34 AM EDT) -- Action by the plaintiff son, daughter and son-in-law, as estate trustees and in their personal capacity, for damages against the defendant lawyer and law firm. The 82-year-old father died suddenly in 2010. He was survived by his wife, the plaintiffs’ mother, who had dementia. Shortly before the father’s death, the lawyer drafted a new will for him and acted for him on a mortgage financing transaction on the daughter’s home. The 2010 will provided for the estate assets to be held in trust for the wife’s benefit and upon her death, the residue was to be divided equally between the children, subject to the proviso that each child’s share was to be first used to pay off any mortgage held by the child. The father jointly applied for refinancing so that the daughter could undertake renovations to her home. The lawyer arranged for the father to hold a 50 per cent interest as tenant in common, as required by the credit union mortgagee. The refinancing transaction accounted for debts owed by the daughter to the father. The daughter agreed to the arrangement, although she disputed some of the debts and the amounts owing. The plaintiffs terminated the estate’s retainer with the lawyer six weeks after their father’s death. In communications with the plaintiffs’ new counsel and the Public Guardian and Trustee (“PGT”), the lawyer indicated her belief the daughter attempted to influence the father in the drafting of his will and repeatedly borrowed money from him. The PGT refused to accept the daughter as guardian of property for the mother....