Carranza LLP

• Wills
• Power of  attorney for property
• Power of attorney for personal care
• Probate of will: certificate of appointment of estate trustee with will
• No will: certificate of appointment of estate trustee without a will
• Advise executors and trustees
• Estate administration
• Survivorship applications for surviving joint tenants
• Estate sales of real property and transfers to beneficiaries
• Estate sales of businesses and transfers to beneficiaries
• Applications to pass accounts in estates and powers of attorney
• Estate dispute resolution
• Estate litigation
•     Monty has more than forty-five years experience as a lawyer assisting executors with probate of wills and estate administration, and assisting next of kin where no will is found, as well as extensive personal experience as an estate executor.
•     As an estate lawyer, he has helped executors locate beneficiaries, advised on executor fees, resolved disputes over accounts, and attended in court to pass accounts.
•     As an estate lawyer, Monty has assisted executors and claimants against estates in disputes over validity of wills, claims  by separated spouses and disinherited children, and interpretation of home drawn wills.
•     As an estate lawyer, he has litigated claims to ownership of assets transferred to the joint names of the deceased and the claimant.
•     The death of a family member can ignite passions that make it extremely difficult to administer the estate. Monty has the experience to counsel executors and claimants through the conflict to cost effective solutions.

• Real estate sales
• Real estate purchases
• Residential
• Condos
• Commercial real estate

• Company  incorporations

• Minute books
• Sale of business: share sale
• Sale of business: asset sale
• Advise on corporate and commercial disputes
• Corporate and commercial litigation
• Advise on not for profit corporate governance