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Wills, Estate Planning & End-of-Life

Legal Information Resources

Hospice Care

  • Nidus Personal Planning and Resource Centre Registry – Personal planning is about planning for incapacity, end-of-life and other support needs. Personal planning formalizes informal help provided by your friends and family and gives them or others the legal authority necessary to help you.
  • Canadian Virtual Hospice – Information and support on palliative and end-of-life care, loss and grief.

What to do

  • After a Death (Canada) – outlines what to do when someone dies, at the federal level, such as: canceling a passport, notifying the CRA, contacting credit bureaus to avoid fraud, and claiming life insurance.
  • Life Events: Death (BC)  – what to do when someone dies, at the provincial level. Learn how to register a death in British Columbia and order a death certificate. Get information about wills and estates.
  • Make a Will Week (October in BC) –  to encourage the public to write their will or bring an existing will up-to-date.

Books & Kits

  • Available at PRPL
  • Self-Counsel Press: Wills – Books, kits, and forms to help you prepare an estate plan, make a legal will or codicil to a will, and write a medical directive or living will or representation agreement.