Financial planning means giving thought to how you want to manage your investments and other assets during your lifetime. But it also means taking a longer view and considering what will happen to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. New rules governing the way estates are divided when someone dies without a will take effect next week, ...

If a person dies without a valid will, or without any will at all, her estate will be distributed in terms of the Intestate Succession Act which effectively sets out the rules according to which the ...

As poll after poll reveals, only about half of adult Canadians have a will in place. This is despite the fact that these surveys also consistently show that most Canadians appreciate the importance of ...