By Nicholas André ( March 24, 2025, 1:41 PM EDT) -- While the technical legal requirements of a will may be met in a variety of forms — often subject to arduous court proceedings declaring such validity — there is a big difference between what constitutes a valid will and what comprehensive estate planning encompasses. Wills can take many forms, for example, Cecil George Harris’s historic will, etched onto a panel of farm machinery under which he was trapped and later succumbed to injury, or the Court of Appeal for Ontario’s 2022 finding in McGrath v. Joy, 2022 ONCA 119 that a suicide note was a valid will....