lenaitch
Senior Member
Just very happy that the children have finally received council to make Doug the thug accountable. Renata and the children should have received what was due to them. Just don’t quite understand how this sizeable estate hasn’t gone through probate yet. At any rate, Doug knows how the system works and has worked it and milked it and the only ones that have gotten ahead are the lawyers.
Or simply never got around to it because, you know, more important things to do. My mother-in-law passed about ten years ago and one of the siblings, who is a lawyer, said he would look after it. Nobody much cared since everything rolled over to her husband and he was comfortable. Until it came time for him to go into a retirement home and sell the family home. Because it was jointly held they couldn't until dear son got his act in gear.
I find it strange that the MAGs child advocate had to become involved. It seems Renata retained counsel and bills are owing:
Renata Ford ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in legal fees for work on Rob Ford estate
The unpaid legal fees arose when Renata Ford sued Doug Ford, his brother Randal Ford and the Ford family companies in 2018
nationalpost.com
How did Probate sign off on this, particularly the separate trust issue, which would seem pretty clear. The settling of accounts is *usually* a fairly straight forward accounting process.
This whole family is strange.