When siblings disagree over estate distributions, understanding how courts award estate litigation costs Ontario expenses becomes critical. Sometimes you can win the argument and lose the case. That is the plain lesson of a recent Ontario decision, Hernandez v. Hernandez, 2026 ONSC 1136, where an Ontario court ordered a beneficiary who was technically correct on a point of procedure to pay $27,000 in costs, personally, to a court-appointed estate trustee.
The fight was over roughly $214 in disputed charges. The combined…
