{"id":497,"date":"2016-08-29T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:50:33","slug":"ontario-statutory-limitation-periods-apply-to-will-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: statutory limitation periods apply to will challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice DiTomaso&#8217;s decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/gsn77\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Taylor-Reid v. Taylor<\/em><\/a> is another that cites\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/g8lzn\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Leibel <\/em><\/a>for the principle that will challenges are subject to the basic limitation period.\u00a0 The issue is gradually becoming settled.\u00a0 These are the relevant paragraphs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MainParagraph\">[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par106\"><\/a>106]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Even if Andrea could demonstrate a genuine issue for trial based on evidence of actual \u201cphysical damage\u201d and\/or that services were actually performed pursuant to an actual agreement, Andrea is statute barred from commencing a claim against the Estate pursuant to <a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b\/latest\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b.html#sec4_smooth\">s. 4<\/a> of the <a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b\/latest\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b.html\"><i>Limitations Act<\/i>, 2002<\/a> and the case of <i>Leibel v. Leibel<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MainParagraph\">[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par107\"><\/a>107]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 In the case of <i>Leibel v. Leibel<\/i>, the court determined that, in a Will challenge, the limitation period commences on the date of death, being September 22, 2011.\u00a0 This, however, is subject to the discoverability rule outlined in <a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b\/latest\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b.html#sec5_smooth\">s. 5<\/a> of the<a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b\/latest\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b.html\"><i>Limitations Act<\/i>, 2002<\/a>.\u00a0 In <i>Leibel v. Leibel<\/i>, the Plaintiff (Will challenger) was found to have discovered the claim within 60 days of the date of death and, since the claim was commenced outside of the two year limitation period, it was statute barred.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MainParagraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice DiTomaso&#8217;s decision in Taylor-Reid v. Taylor is another that cites\u00a0Leibel for the principle that will challenges are subject to the basic limitation period.\u00a0 The issue is gradually becoming settled.\u00a0 These are the relevant paragraphs: [106]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Even if Andrea could demonstrate a genuine issue for trial based on evidence of actual \u201cphysical damage\u201d and\/or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: statutory limitation periods apply to will challenges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,273,272,7],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-estates","tag-the-law-settles-itself","tag-will-challenges","tag-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}