Wills
Primary and secondary wills, guardian appointments for minor children, testamentary trusts and tailored distribution schemes.
Practice Area
Wills & Estates. Your legacy, structured with intention.
Thoughtful estate planning and efficient administration — wills, powers of attorney, trusts, probate and estate administration.
Overview
An estate plan is an act of care. It ensures the people you love are provided for, the assets you built are protected, and the decisions that matter are made by the people you chose — not by statute or by a court.
Waliani Law prepares wills, powers of attorney and trusts tailored to your family and financial circumstances, including business owners, blended families and clients with property in multiple jurisdictions. When a loved one passes, we guide executors and families through probate and administration with efficiency and empathy.
Dying without a will means Ontario's Succession Law Reform Act decides who inherits — and a court decides who administers. A properly drafted plan costs a fraction of the problems it prevents.
Common Legal Issues
- You don't have a will — or the one you have is years out of date
- You own a business and want to minimize estate administration tax
- You've been named executor and don't know where to start
- A loved one died without a will
- You need powers of attorney before travel, surgery or aging-related planning
- You have a blended family and want to provide for everyone fairly
How We Help
Plans, Not Templates
Every will we draft reflects your actual family, assets and intentions — including corporate interests, foreign property and blended family dynamics.
Tax-Aware Structuring
Dual wills for business owners, trust structures and beneficiary designations that can materially reduce estate administration tax and income tax.
Incapacity Protection
Powers of attorney for property and personal care, so a moment of crisis never becomes a court application.
Steady Estate Administration
We shoulder the legal burden for executors — probate applications, asset collection, creditor claims, accounting and distribution.
What We Do
Wills & Estates services, end to end.
Powers of Attorney
Continuing powers of attorney for property and powers of attorney for personal care — the documents every adult should have.
Estate Planning
Integrated planning across wills, trusts, insurance, beneficiary designations and corporate structures, coordinated with your accountant and advisors.
Probate
Applications for a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee (with or without a will), including estate administration tax calculation and filings.
Trusts
Family trusts, spousal trusts, Henson trusts for beneficiaries with disabilities and other structures for control, protection and tax efficiency.
Estate Administration
Complete executor support: asset inventory, notices, debt settlement, tax clearance, interim and final distributions and estate accounts.
Client Experiences
Results our clients talk about.
As a business owner I'd put off my will for a decade. The dual-will structure they set up will save my family a six-figure amount in estate tax. Efficient, clear and worth every penny.
R. Kaur
Entrepreneur, Brampton
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers, in plain language.
Your estate is distributed by the intestacy rules in the Succession Law Reform Act: your spouse receives a preferential share (currently $350,000) plus a portion of the remainder, with the rest divided among children. Common-law partners receive nothing automatically. A court must appoint an administrator, and you lose all control over guardianship, timing and structure.
Speak With a Wills & Estates Lawyer
The right time to get advice is now.
Deadlines, evidence and leverage all favour the party who acts first. Book a confidential consultation and know exactly where you stand.