Solange Buissé
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Solange Buissé Partner
Solange practices Estate Planning and Estate Administration law at Taylor McCaffrey LLP and is well respected for her years of experience in this area. She specializes in services such as wills development, complex estates planning (including high-net worth, blended families, beneficiaries for special needs, etc.), applications for probate, court applications relating to estates, incapacity planning, and trusts.
She is very aware of the sensitivity of her work and carefully listens to her clients when it comes to their wishes and desires whether it be for the development of wills, power of attorney, health care directives, resolving disputes relating to estates or other related matters.
Though Solange has been in private practice for most of her legal career, her clients benefit from the skills and knowledge she developed earlier in her career while filling the role of an in-house senior estate planner and trust officer for large financial institutions. The fact that she is fluent in both French and English languages, and that she works closely with several trust companies on estate planning and estate administration matters, also highlights the value Solange can bring to her clients.
Solange earned an internationally recognized T.E.P. designation from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners in 2022.
While Solange is a very busy lawyer and parent, she firmly believes giving back, whether it be within the legal industry or her community. She has co-chaired the Manitoba Bar Association’s Wills & Estates Section for several years. She is also a frequent presenter at Continuing Education Seminars organized within the section. She has taught the Wills & Successions course at the University of Manitoba and often provides Estate Planning Seminars for client groups, workplaces, and charitable organizations.
Memberships and Professional Designations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Manitoba Bar Association
- Association des juristes d’expression française du Manitoba
- Law Society of Manitoba
- Estate Planning Council of Winnipeg
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Positions
- Co-chair of the Manitoba Bar Association’s Wills & Estates Section
- Member of the executive of the Canada Bar Association’s Wills & Estates Section
- Frequent presenter on topics relating to succession and incapacity for the Manitoba Bar Association, Law Society of Manitoba and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Winnipeg Chapter)
- Past course Lecturer, Wills & Successions, University of Manitoba School of Law
- Past course Lecturer, Business Administration and the Law, Université de Saint-Boniface
- Past course Lecturer, Estate Planning, Pre-Retirement Workshop for Federal Government Employees
- Past director (and officer) and frequent volunteer of various community organizations including Francofonds Inc., l’Association des juristes d’expression française du Manitoba, les 100 Nons.
Lecturer
Law Society of Manitoba and Manitoba Bar Association Joint Program:
- 2024 LSM/MBA Joint Will and Estates Program on incapacity matters, moderator and member of the organizing committee
- 2023 LSM/MBA Joint Will and Estates Program on Estate Administration Fundamentals, member of the organizing committee and collaborator on “Opening a File & Administration Prior to Grant of Probate or Administration”
- 2022 LSM/MBA Joint Will and Estates Program on estate planning, member of the organizing committee and presenter, “Mutual Will and Estate Planning Agreements” and “Billing in Estate Administration Matters”
Society or Trust and Estate Practitioners:
- “Creditor and Family Law Protection – A Review of Trusts Through the Family Law Lens”, co-presenter (2024)
- Conflicts of Law, contributor (2021)
Manitoba Bar Association:
- Everything but the FPA – A Review of Legislation affecting Estate Planning and Administration in the Family Law Context, presenter (2020)
- Family Law Issues in Estates Matters, co-presenter (2020)
- Four Letter words – RRSPs and RIFFs, co-presenter (2019)
- Billing Practices in Estates, co-presenter (2019)
- À la poursuite des précédents – Conseils et pièges concernant l’utilisation des modèles d’actes, co-presenter, in partnership with the LSM, MBA and AJEFM (2018)
- Debunking the Myth. Trust Companies – Too expensive or a viable option?, co-presenter (2017)
Various Community Speaking Engagements:
- Tax and Estate Planning for Vacation Properties
- The Use of Trusts in Estate Planning
- Making a Will
- Estate Planning Basics
- Where Family Law and Estate Law Meet
- Capacity and the Legal Profession
- Hot Topics in Estates and Incapacity (presentation for financial institutions)
- “Parlons droits” on Envol 91-1 FM
