Snippets of lengthy article, rbbm.
Barry Sherman’s will decreed that if he died, all “net income” from his multibillion-dollar estate would go to wife Honey for her “comfort and maintenance” and “anything else my wife
www.toronto.com
''The first Sherman will the Star is aware of (the Star does not know if there were earlier versions) was created and signed in 2013. Barry was 70 that year. The will provided instructions and also listed eight trustees to oversee his estate after death. The trustees were Jack Kay, Craig Baxter (then president of Sherfam, the Sherman family holding company), Mike Florence (husband of Barry’s sister Sandra), Allen Shechtman (husband of Honey’s sister Mary), and Barry and Honey’s grown children, Lauren, Jonathon, Alexandra and Kaelen.''
''There was also a proviso in the will that stated the trustees could, if they wished, give money (however much they determined) to a short list of descendants — the children and grandchildren of Honey’s sister Mary and Barry’s sister Sandra.''
'In the March 29, 2017, codicil to his 2013 will, Florence, Shechtman and Baxter were removed. Baxter was replaced with Glasenberg.''
''The other change Barry made — the Star does not know why — was the removal of his three daughters as trustees. He kept Jonathon as a trustee and added daughter Alexandra’s husband, Brad Krawczyk, who worked at Sherfam for Glasenberg''.
''Sources who include Sherman friends and family say that
had Honey survived Barry, she would have continued on with what for her was an unusually high spending plan, and she would not have been inclined to be as generous as Barry typically was with their children.''
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'A Sherman family member has raised with the Davies law firm a concern over the timing of a legal document related to the 2017 codicil. Sources say the family member was concerned that it was not signed until after Barry and Honey were dead. The document is called an “affidavit of execution” and it is a notarized document used in large estates to provide proof that the witnesses to the will actually did witness it. According to the Sherman family member, this document was not signed by the two witnesses and notarized until after the Shermans were dead.''
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The same family member has also raised with Davies a concern about the legitimacy of Barry’s signature on the 2017 codicil. Thomson said that allegation came from “one person associated with the Sherman estates” and it has been thoroughly investigated and dismissed as “baseless.”