Court of Appeal: Promise to Gift House to Son Unenforceable

by: , 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