23-1 Place D'Armes, Kingston, Ontario K7K 6R9, Canada
(613) 542-1818 (tel)
COLLABORATIVE ESTATES LAW
When Wendy becomes involved in estate litigation matters, she searches for the least intrusive, most dignified path to bring balance back into a grieving family’s life.
Wendy recognizes that you are meeting her because you are travelling through a difficult period in life and are choosing legal support to restore fairness to an otherwise private situation. If court can be avoided altogether, Wendy will discuss this option with you in the first consultation meeting.
Wendy practises and is an advocate of collaborative estates law and, as of 2026, will only meet new private clients who wish to resolve their estates disputes in a collaborative environment. This means that she will attend court on your behalf only for procedural or non-contested issues.
These are the most common type of issues that arise in conflicted estates - all of which can be resolved in an out-of-court collaborative process:
- will challenges
- will interpretations
- heirship applications
- lost assets
- lost wills
- dependant support applications
- Family Law Act equalization elections
- winding up and variation of trusts
- breach of trust
- removal of trustees
- passings of accounts and accountings
- compensation for caregiving
- challenges to designated beneficiaries
- international conflicts of law
- unjust enrichment claims / proprietary estoppel
- predatory marriages / caregiver marriages