Services.

We regularly assist clients by advising and providing the following services:

Wills, Trusts and Estates

  • Estate planning (including consideration of BC probate fees and potential claims under the Wills Variation Act)
  • Wills preparation
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Representation Agreements
  • Assisting families with planning for a disabled family member
  • Assisting family law and litigation lawyers with files involving estate and trust matters
  • Adult guardianship including appointment of Committees for incapable adults
  • Probate including applications for grants of probate, administration and administration with will annexed
  • Estate administration including post-mortem restructuring and multi-jurisdiction problems
  • Advising estate administrators, trustees and beneficiaries
  • Trust, trust variations and tax related matters

Corporate Legal Services

We also offer corporate services for private, closely held corporations including:

  • British Columbia incorporations
  • Corporate reorganizations, rollovers and estates freezes
  • Extra-provincial registrations and continuations
  • Issuance of corporate and stock dividends
  • Registered and records offices services:
    • Records maintenance
    • Preparation of corporate documents and filings including
      • Annual consent resolutions
      • Annual report filing
      • Change in Directors and Officers
      • Voluntary Dissolutions and Windups

Janine Thomas is honoured to have been awarded an AV® Preeminent ranking by Martindale-Hubbell, the premier worldwide publication of its kind for over a century.
"An AV® certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment — a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence"*

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