Law360 Canada ( September 22, 2026, 9:42 AM EDT) -- Appeal by appellant from order dismissing her application to cancel two certificates of pending litigation (CPLs) filed by respondent against properties in which appellant held registered interest. The appellant was the mother of the respondent’s former spouse, Kapoor. The respondent filed a notice of family claim (NOFC) and registered CPLs against properties owned by the appellant. The NOFC alleged that Kapoor contributed to the down payment of one property and to the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of another property from family income, and asserted that although the properties were registered in the appellant’s name, Kapoor was the beneficial owner of the appellant’s interest in those properties. The respondent sought declarations that the appellant held interests in the properties in trust and orders transferring such interests as the court might determine. The chambers judge acknowledged that the NOFC was exceedingly sparse but concluded that it met the bare minimum requirement for pleading an interest in land and dismissed the application to cancel the CPLs. The appellant argued that the NOFC contained only bare assertions and conclusory statements, failed to plead material facts supporting the alleged beneficial interest, and therefore did not disclose a claim to an interest in land. The respondent argued that the NOFC disclosed a claim to family property arising from Kapoor’s financial contributions to the properties from family income....