The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes...and How to Avoid Them

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Blacklock, Jean, 1961-

The 50 biggest estate planning mistakes: and how to avoid them/Jean Blacklock and Sarah Kruger.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-68162-6

1. Estate planning—Canada—Popular works. I. Kruger, Sarah II. Title. III. Title: Fifty biggest estate planning mistakes.

KE5974.B52 2010

KF750.B52 2010

346.7105’2

C2010-903726-X

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