This looseleaf service is expertly designed to advise the family-owned business in legal matters. It explores the main stages in the life of the business from its start-up to its operation, and any alterations in its structure and/or participants. Supplemented with a detailed table of cases, this three-volume text deals with the various facets of family-owned business and provides an in-depth coverage on the various Business Corporations Acts of Canada.

Volume 1 thoroughly covers the aspects related to the business structure, employment, income tax, and insurance claims. Volume 2 reviews the oppression remedy, wrongful dismissal claims, and sentencing table and Volume 3 provides procedural summaries and remedies table for law practitioners.

Inside find valuable legal insight and expertise on

• Use of trusts in a family-owned business
• Tax issues to consider in forming a new trust
• Putting different children in different roles
• Estate freezes
• Incapacity planning
• Use of personal or family holding companies
• Intergenerational gifts or bequests
• Different types of insurance and their purposes, and more