Indigenous legacies: Legal considerations for gifting cultural assets, possessory interests

By Suzana Popovic-Montag ( June 16, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT) -- Assisting Indigenous clients with estate planning can give rise to questions that simply do not come up when preparing wills for other clients, given the unique property interests that Indigenous clients may hold. Two such property interests that wills and estates practitioners may be unaccustomed to addressing in wills are cultural assets and possessory interests in reserve land....