Canadian Cases in Private International Law in 2019

The plaintiff sued her son for misappropriating some $6 million of her property. She was originally from British Columbia but moved to Sweden in 1953, when she first married. The defendant was the son of her second marriage. He moved from Sweden to British Columbia in 2009, and, in 2011, the plaintiff did so too in order to be closer to him and his family. She returned to Sweden in 2015. In 2017, a Swedish court had appointed a daughter from her first marriage, who lived in New York State, as the mother’s legal guardian. The daughter had a litigation guardian appointed in British Columbia to bring the plaintiff’s action against the defendant. He was resident in British Columbia when the action was commenced in June 2017, but, subsequently, he and his family moved back to Sweden, although they still spent part of each year in British Columbia, where he continued to teach at a university.