Does a provision in a will that does not include the word "insurance" constitute a revocation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bassi v. Bassi, 2013 BCCA 422 (CanLII):
We have been referred to only one authority in which a provision in a will that did not use the word “insurance” has been found to constitute a valid revocation. That is the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Orpin v. Littlechild, 2011 ONSC 7695. In that decision, at para. 16, Madam Justice Healey concluded:
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