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Posts Tagged: Court Applications to Sever Joint Ownership
1 ResultsCourt of Appeal: Promise to Gift House to Son Unenforceable
by: Angela Casey, April 22, 2014
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Kavanagh v. Lajoie serves as a reminder to folks on the receiving end of a promise not to count their chickens before they are hatched. In 2005, Mark Lajoie’s father promised to gift him a house in Ottawa. The father then transferred title to the house to himself and…read more