Best Lawyers in British Columbia, Canada for Trusts and Estates

Rose’s deep and abiding care for her clients and their families is a hallmark of her practice. Rose is brings more than 15 years of experience to her practice, which is primarily focused on assisting families and businesses with their planning, succession and reorganization, estate, and business needs. She strives to make life’s inevitabilities, death and taxes, less daunting a topic for clients while being alert to the complications these raise from a legal, family, tax, probate ...

Hiva is an associate lawyer in Fasken's Vancouver office, practicing in the Wills and Estate Group. Hiva's experience includes: preparation of wills, testamentary trust agreements, powers of attorney, and representation agreements; preparation of alter ego, joint partner, and disability trusts; preparation of family agreements (pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements); estate administration services, including application to obtain grant of probate or administration; and providing legal advic...

Alexander has an aptitude for structuring creative solutions that accomplish the best results for his clients. His experience in various areas of litigation has also given him the ability to successfully navigate the multifaceted and complex nature of estate litigation files. Alexander has particular expertise in matters relating to estates, trusts, and fiduciary and capacity-related proceedings. He has successfully represented individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations in this a...

Ariel advises families, individuals, and business owners on integrated estate, trust, and succession planning. Her practice focuses on developing personalized strategies that support both business continuity and personal planning goals across generations. She assists clients with estate and incapacity planning, including the preparation of wills, powers of attorney, representation agreements, and trusts. She also advises on intergenerational business transfers and succession planning for priv...

Sarah joined Farris as an associate with the firm’s Private Client Services group in 2023. Her practice focuses on estate planning, estate administration, and trusts. Sarah obtained her Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law in 2018. During law school, Sarah attended the Summer Law Program in The Hague, Netherlands, studying international criminal law and war crimes, and was awarded the Jurisprudence Achievement Award for the highest achieving student in Agriculture ...

Marta Miazek is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Trusts and Estates. Marta, who practices law in Surrey, British Columbia, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Marta is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

With a deep understanding of relationship dynamics and a keen eye for detail, Sunny excels at anticipating the issues that impact the negotiation or the litigation of our clients’ matters in estates and trusts, fraud and asset recovery. He is adept at assessing situations from all angles and develops strategies to address our clients’ needs and, ultimately, protect their rights. Sunny’s role is to support clients by providing informed legal knowledge and pragmatic solutions ...

Kate Braaten is an associate in our private wealth, trusts and estates team. Her practice focuses on estates, trusts, charities and not-for profit law. Kate assists clients with preparing wills, powers of attorney and healthcare representation, as well as the documentation required to establish and fund discretionary family trusts, alter ego trusts, joint partner trusts and other trust structures. She also advises clients in the charitable and tax-exempt sector on a variety of matters, includ...

Aubrie Girou is a Partner and a member of Alexander Holburn's Wills, Estates + Trusts Practice Group. Aubrie practices exclusively in the area of wills, estates + trusts, and incapacity and maintains both a solicitor’s and litigation practice. She assists clients with all aspects of contentious disputes – simple and complex – that can arise on death or incapacity including wills variation, unjust enrichment, constructive or resulting trusts, breach of fiduciary duties, commi...