Parr Business Law
Estate Planning
Wed, July 15 · 5:00 PM PT
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Parr Business Law
Estate Planning
Odds are your will predates the company. This is the hour where you finally get the business side handled. No jargon. No sales pressure.
You don’t need anything sorted out to come. You’ll get your Zoom link, reminders, and the full replay.
If you’ve been putting this off, you’re in good company. There’s no shame in it.
Estate planning is the kind of thing that’s easy to move to next month, and then the month after that.
But “later” has a cost, and it’s rarely paid by you. It’s paid by the people you love.
The hardest part isn’t the legal work. It’s the not knowing.
Not knowing what your current will still covers. Not knowing what happens to your company. Not knowing how long, or how expensive, probate really is.
That uncertainty is what keeps a plan stuck on the to-do list.
“We have a will, but it’s 27 years old.”
“We just don’t know the process. What actually gets triggered.”
“I don’t want them stuck with probate, and the government and lawyers getting all the money.”
“We’ve both been talking for a while that we need to get off our butts and get the wills made.”
Real words from people who came to Parr Business Law to finally make a plan. If any of them sound familiar, this workshop was built for you.
A business owner came to us with a corporation worth several million dollars, and a will written before the company existed. They assumed everything was covered.
It wasn’t. The gap was fixable. But nobody had ever shown them where it was.
A composite of real client situations, with details changed.
This isn’t a workshop about fear. It’s a workshop about clarity. The three things that turn “I should deal with this” into “I know exactly what to do.”
This is a live working session, not a lecture. Bring a pen and leave with your next three moves written down.
A personal will often says nothing about your corporation, your shares, or your holding company. You’ll see the most common, and most expensive, places those two worlds fail to connect.
When you’re gone, the assets inside your company can trigger a serious tax bill. A large share of it is avoidable with the right structure in place. You’ll see the real numbers, and the planning moves that legally reduce what the CRA takes. More of what you built reaches the people you built it for.
Signing authority, payroll, decisions. The day-after questions most plans never answer. You’ll learn how to keep the business running when you can’t be the one at the helm.
You don’t need to be planning an exit tomorrow. You just need a business worth protecting.
You own a business or professional corporation, and you’re not sure what would happen to it if you weren’t here.
You have a holding company, or shares in more than one corporation, and you’ve never seen the tax bill that structure could trigger.
You have partners or co-shareholders, and no current shareholder agreement or buy-sell plan.
Your will was signed before the business existed, and it has never caught up.
You’re weighing a future exit or succession, and you want the foundation right before you get there.
If your plan is current, coordinated, and was reviewed in the last couple of years, you probably don’t need this hour. It’s for everyone still meaning to get there.
Sound like you? It’s one hour, and it’s free.
Save My Spot. It’s Free
Steve Parr isn’t a lawyer who happened to wander into estate planning. He’s an entrepreneur first.
He built and sold a vacation-rental company before founding Parr Business Law in 2017. He has sat in the business owner’s chair, with payroll to meet and a family counting on the outcome.
He has also lived the other side of this. He watched his own family postpone their planning for decades, and walked through his mother’s dementia diagnosis without the clear plan that would have made it easier. That experience is why he teaches this the way he does: plainly, patiently, and without the lecture.
Today Steve holds the Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and Certified Executor Advisor (CEA) designations, and has guided BC families and business owners through thousands of legal matters. He teaches every minute of the session himself.
“The documents matter, but the plan matters more. Let’s make this clear.”
The relief is the part nobody expects. Once the plan is in motion, the weight people have carried for years just lifts.
“I will sleep better tonight just by knowing that this is, yeah, in the works.”
A commercial litigator, at the end of her first planning session
“We want to ensure that whatever plans we have don’t cause any problems amongst the children.”
A business owner with three adult children
Take the free Estate Plan Readiness Quiz. Answer a few short questions and get a personalized snapshot of where your plan is solid, where it has gaps, and what to look at first. No jargon, no commitment.
For most business owners, a personal will is only part of the picture. A standard will rarely says anything about your shares, your holding company, or who has authority to run things. And if it predates the company, it may not even know the business exists. The workshop shows you where a will stops, and where the rest of a real plan has to begin.
A trust is a legal arrangement that holds assets and sets the rules for how and when they reach the people you choose, usually with more control, more privacy, and less tax and probate than passing everything through a will. Whether you need one depends on your structure and your family. The workshop explains trusts without the jargon, so you can decide for yourself whether the idea is worth a closer look. No pressure either way.
It can. When a business owner passes away, the assets inside the company can trigger a large tax bill, but a meaningful share of it is avoidable with the right structure set up ahead of time. The workshop walks through where that tax comes from, and the legal planning moves that reduce it. More of what you built reaches your family instead of the CRA.
Not the part this workshop is about. An accountant handles your annual filing. They don’t draft the corporate will, the shareholder agreement, or the estate structure that decides what tax actually hits when you’re gone. The two work together. This session shows you where the legal side of your plan stands today.
It’s earlier than a crisis, which is the point. The owners who plan well before any exit get the cleanest result and keep the most tax. Waiting doesn’t make the questions easier; it just means someone answers them under pressure later. An hour now is the least stressful version of this you’ll ever get.
Yes. Register and we’ll send the full replay within 24 hours, whether or not you attend. But the replay includes the teaching. The live session includes the answers. If you can make it live, come.
No. You don’t need documents, numbers, or decisions made. That’s what the hour is for. If you want a small head start, knowing roughly when your current will was signed (if you have one) is plenty.
No. The workshop is education, start to finish. At the end, if you’d like to go further, you’ll be invited, not pushed, to book an Estate Clarity Session, a relaxed working meeting where a PBL lawyer helps you map your own plan. That’s the only ask, and it’s entirely your call. You’re also free to take everything you learn and act on it yourself.
The business shouldn’t be the thing that unravels if you’re not here. Give yourself sixty jargon-free minutes and leave with a path you can act on.
One hour, and it’s finally moving.
Save My Seat for July 15Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send the full replay.
The replay includes the teaching. The live session includes the answers. Bring your questions.