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Dec 13 2018
Where is Honey Sherman’s will?
"Today, a year after the founder of generic drug giant Apotex and his wife were slain, the revelation that the financial affairs of one of Canada's wealthiest couples were not in order when they died is just one of a string of mysteries in the case."
"We don't know who the beneficiaries are, if there is a will," Sherman estate lawyer Timothy Youdan told a court hearing in July. "We don't know if there is no will." To proceed with the administration of the couple's estate, Youdan filed a document asking for the "appointment of estate trustee without a will in the estate of Honey Sherman."
"In his first of two sealing orders, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sean Dunphy wrote in June that the file contains "confidential materials of potential relevance to the police investigation." Whether the Toronto police have been provided this information, neither the police or the family will say.
When Dunphy later issued a two-year blanket seal, he said he did so to protect the "privacy and dignity" of the both the late Sherman couple and their loved ones. Dunphy also said he was doing it out of concern that the killers, who have never been caught, would harm someone else."
One of the intricacies of estate law is the "simultaneous death" situation, in which spouses die at roughly the same time (car and airplane accidents being the most common examples). In the Sherman case, both were last seen alive on the evening of Dec. 13, 2017: Honey left a meeting at Apotex headquarters with her husband and the architects of a planned Forest Hill home around 6:30 p.m., and Barry left his office at 8:30 p.m. One scenario under investigation by police, sources say, is that Honey arrived home shortly after 7 p.m. and was surprised by an attacker or attackers; the same happened to Barry when he arrived home later, around 9 p.m."
"In the hearing before Dunphy, Youdan said simply, "We do not know the order of death."
Dec 13 2018
Where is Honey Sherman’s will?
"Today, a year after the founder of generic drug giant Apotex and his wife were slain, the revelation that the financial affairs of one of Canada's wealthiest couples were not in order when they died is just one of a string of mysteries in the case."
"We don't know who the beneficiaries are, if there is a will," Sherman estate lawyer Timothy Youdan told a court hearing in July. "We don't know if there is no will." To proceed with the administration of the couple's estate, Youdan filed a document asking for the "appointment of estate trustee without a will in the estate of Honey Sherman."
"In his first of two sealing orders, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sean Dunphy wrote in June that the file contains "confidential materials of potential relevance to the police investigation." Whether the Toronto police have been provided this information, neither the police or the family will say.
When Dunphy later issued a two-year blanket seal, he said he did so to protect the "privacy and dignity" of the both the late Sherman couple and their loved ones. Dunphy also said he was doing it out of concern that the killers, who have never been caught, would harm someone else."
One of the intricacies of estate law is the "simultaneous death" situation, in which spouses die at roughly the same time (car and airplane accidents being the most common examples). In the Sherman case, both were last seen alive on the evening of Dec. 13, 2017: Honey left a meeting at Apotex headquarters with her husband and the architects of a planned Forest Hill home around 6:30 p.m., and Barry left his office at 8:30 p.m. One scenario under investigation by police, sources say, is that Honey arrived home shortly after 7 p.m. and was surprised by an attacker or attackers; the same happened to Barry when he arrived home later, around 9 p.m."
"In the hearing before Dunphy, Youdan said simply, "We do not know the order of death."
