{"id":51284,"date":"2025-12-01T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/?p=51284"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:02:57","slug":"antonio-iacovelli-co-authors-article-on-compounding-errors-suspensive-conditions-in-the-quebec-law-of-successions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/insights\/publications\/antonio-iacovelli-co-authors-article-on-compounding-errors-suspensive-conditions-in-the-quebec-law-of-successions\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Iacovelli co-authors article on &#8220;Compounding Errors: Suspensive Conditions in the Quebec Law of Successions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published in the <em>Estates, Trusts &amp; Pensions Journal<\/em>, and recognized with the 2026 OBA Foundation\u2019s Widdifield Award for excellence in legal writing in tax and estate planning, this piece<sup data-fn=\"f6d035da-3496-438d-9eaf-0a8f58256438\" class=\"fn\"><a id=\"f6d035da-3496-438d-9eaf-0a8f58256438-link\" href=\"#f6d035da-3496-438d-9eaf-0a8f58256438\">1<\/a><\/sup> explores a key area of Quebec succession law and the very real risk that commonly used testamentary clauses may be misinterpreted by the court as suspensive conditions. Of particular importance to estate litigators and estate planners, it underscores the critical importance of careful, precise drafting of testamentary instruments under Quebec law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cA jurisprudential error in one decision that subsequent decisions reiterate and perpetuate is an example of undesirable compounding with adverse effects. While there may be different interpretations of testamentary clauses, interpretation must be grounded in principles of law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo talk of receiving an acquired successoral entitlement at an indeterminable time dependent wholly upon the liquidator\u2019s performance of her duties is not to talk good law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Suspensive-Conditions-in-the-Quebec-Law-of-Successions.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes has-small-font-size\"><li id=\"f6d035da-3496-438d-9eaf-0a8f58256438\">Piccini Roy, M. &amp; Iacovelli, A. (2025), Compounding Errors: Suspensive Conditions in the Quebec Law of Successions. <em>Estates, Trusts &amp; Pensions Journal<\/em>, <em>44<\/em>(1). 89-106. 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