Suzana Popovic-Montag

Practice Areas

Estate issues can be both financially significant and emotionally charged. These are complex areas, often dictated by arcane law from more than a hundred years ago. The representation you depend upon for your case is crucial – and our lawyers provide exceptional advice and service for a wide range of estate, trust and capacity matters.

Career

Suzana Popovic-Montag is the Managing Partner of Hull & Hull LLP, one of Canada’s leading estate litigation firms. As one of the country’s premier estate litigators with almost 25 years of litigation experience, she has successfully represented clients at every level of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Trained in mediation at Harvard Law School, Suzana also maintains a specialized mediation practice through Hull Estate Mediation Inc., focusing on pre-death and post-death estate resolutions.

She is a frequent blogger and podcaster and speaks regularly at conferences across Canada. Suzana is the author of numerous academic articles on estates and trusts issues – and her articles are referred to in many of Canada’s leading estates texts. 

She is a co-editor of Wills & Trusts Law Reports (U.K.) and Trust Quarterly Review (U.K.). Suzana also is the author and co-author of several academic texts, most notably Probate Practice (5th Edition), Feeney’s Canadian Law of Wills (4th Edition), Challenging the Validity of Wills (2nd Edition) and Power of Attorney Litigation (2nd Edition).

Suzana has been a Lexpert Ranked lawyer since 2012 and recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada since 2009 in the area of Trust and Estates. She has also been selected as a recommended attorney by Global Law Experts.

Suzana was called to the bar in 1997. She has an LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours B.A. in Economics and Math from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Professional Memberships

Ontario Bar Association (OBA), Trusts and Estates Section, Past Chair

Toronto Lawyers Association, Director

Estate Planning Council (Mississauga), Member

Halton County Law Association, Member

The Advocates’ Society, Member

Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP), Member

Canadian Bar Association, Member

The Appleby College Foundation, Member

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Member

The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, Member

Publications

Contributing Author of LGBTQ2+ Law: Practice Issues and Analysis

Probate Practice, 5th ed., Carswell 2016 (co-author)

Feeney’s Canadian Law of Wills, 4th ed., LexisNexis 2016 (co-author)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports (co-editor)

Trust Quarterly Review (co-editor)

Key Developments In Estates and Trusts Law, 2008 and 2009, co-contributor

“The End of a Charitable Saga,” Trusts and Estates, Law & Tax Journal, 2007

“Good News…Recent Developments Limiting the Scope of Claims of Solicitor’s Negligence,” Estates and Trusts Reports, 2006

“Revisiting Section 31 of the Succession Law Reform Act The Anti-Lapse Provision,” Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal, 2004

“‘Once a Spouse’ and ‘Forever Spousal’ Obligations?,” Trust Quarterly Review, 2004

Co-author of Challenging the Validity of Wills, 2nd Edition

Contributing Author of Key Developments in Estates and Trusts Law in Ontario, 2008 – Current Editions

Regular contributor to The Law Times and Lawyers Weekly

Education