By Suzana Popovic-Montag ( July 4, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT) -- In the world of estate administration, the term “renunciation” has a very specific meaning — as noted in the most recent edition of Macdonell, Sheard and Hull on Probate Practice, renunciation refers to a “formal act … whereby an executor having a right to a grant of probate or a person having a right to a grant of administration renounces such right.” In Ontario, s. 34 of the Estates Act also confirms that the rights of executorship will “wholly cease” if a person renounces probate of a will....