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About Us

The Company

LegalWills.ca is operated by PartingWishes Inc., a privately held corporation based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is an independent organization which works with lawyers in Canada to provide legal document creation services to the public, but is not itself tied to a particular law firm. Formed in 2000, the company has a dedicated team devoted to ensuring high customer service, as well as an extensive list of partners and private investors.

Our mandate is to allow people to create common legal documents in a very easy, convenient, private, secure and cost-effective manner, without the need to pay the high expenses of a lawyer. We go far beyond any do-it-yourself kit or online repository of legal forms and documents. If you wish, all of your legal documents can be stored and maintained by you online, in a completely private and secure manner. This will ensure that you can keep it updated to reflect any changes in your financial or family situation.

The LegalWills.ca website allows members to document their Last Will and Testament, Living Will and Power of Attorney. Furthermore, at no extra cost, members can specify their funeral wishes, upload important files and documents, and even create messages to be sent after they have passed away. LegalWills.ca uses a unique Member-Keyholder® relationship, which ensures that the information created by our members is completely secure, yet available to their designated personal Keyholders® only at the appropriate time.

Debbie Dossantos, BSc, LLB

Lawyer

As a Canadian practicing lawyer, we strive to provide services that protect our clients best interests while doing so with the least amount of stress and cost. Canadian Legal Wills does just that. The website allows for a pleasant user experience, in what would otherwise be an unpleasant experience given the subject matter at hand, and provides customers with peace of mind knowing that their wishes are addressed to their satisfaction. The services are well thought out, comprehensive, and cover the standard issues that lawyers address when performing face to face services for their clients.

Our Executive Team

Tim Hewson

Chief Executive Officer

Tim Hewson co-founded PartingWishes Inc. in 2000. Since graduating from Loughborough University of Technology in the UK with an Honours degree in Human Factors he has accumulated over 15 years experience as a telecommunications consultant and Business Manager for small companies in the UK and in Canada. He also has extensive experience in e-commerce business management for large corporations in Canada and the United States, and has worked as a Product Manager for market leading Call Center and Unified Messaging products.

Tim has over 24 years of experience helping people to write their Will and other estate planning documents. He has been interviewed by many of the major news media outlets including CTV, Global News, The Toronto Star, and other leading Canadian publications. He has also contributed to a number of financial planning books.

Throughout his career, Tim has written extensively on the subject of Will writing and estate planning.

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Henry Raud

President and Chief Technology Officer

Henry Raud has over 20 years experience in the PC, telecommunications and software development industry.

Since graduating with an Honours Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto, he has held several technology and executive management positions in a multinational corporation. During that time, he has been responsible for the successful delivery of many complex software development projects.

Henry joined forces with Tim Hewson in 2000 to form PartingWishes Inc.

As President and CTO, he has full accountability and responsibility for all website and software development activities, as well as managing the financials of the corporation.

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