Macy Mirsane

WILLS and ESTATES LAWYER, EDMONTON

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About Macy Mirsane

Macy Mirsane is a lawyer in the Estates Department at Taylor Janis Workplace Law in Edmonton. A double-qualified lawyer with experience practising in Iran and Canada, she brings an international perspective and a broad legal background to her work. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Alberta and a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Tehran.

Macy practises in estate planning, estate administration, and estate litigation. Her experience includes disputes involving the removal of personal representatives, beneficiary challenges to estate accounts and proposed releases, unjust enrichment claims, challenges to handwritten wills, and formal proof of wills prepared with non-lawyer assistance. She has also obtained fiat orders that avoided additional probate steps in related estate matters and assisted with estate matters involving non-cooperative beneficiaries residing outside Canada.

Macy’s background in corporate and commercial law and real estate informs her estates practice, particularly where an estate involves business interests, commercial transactions, or real property. Before practising in Alberta, she worked as a lawyer and legal researcher in Iran and taught university law courses.

Her scholarship includes a published article in the Alberta Law Review and forthcoming work on generative artificial intelligence and technology assets. Her academic research also examines how AI-assisted will drafting may raise questions about testamentary intent and will interpretation. Macy serves clients in English and Persian (Farsi).

Passion and Achievements

Estate disputes involving the removal of personal representatives.
Beneficiary challenges to a personal representative’s accounting and proposed release.
Unjust enrichment claims involving personal representatives and beneficiaries.
Challenges to the validity or interpretation of handwritten (holograph) wills.
Formal proof of wills prepared with non-lawyer assistance.
Estate matters involving non-cooperative beneficiaries residing outside Canada, including seeking directions to pay their distributive entitlements into court.
Estate matters involving real property and privately held business interests.
Scholarly work on AI-assisted will drafting and testamentary intent.

Notable Matters

Fiat orders avoiding additional probate steps: Obtained fiat orders allowing related estate matters involving the same parents to proceed without an additional probate step.
Personal representative removal: Worked on matters involving applications to remove personal representatives for failing to communicate or cooperate with beneficiaries, or for alleged mismanagement or depletion of estate assets.
Unjust enrichment claims: Worked on estate disputes involving unjust enrichment claims concerning personal representatives and beneficiaries.
Challenges to handwritten wills: Worked on challenges involving the validity or interpretation of handwritten (holograph) wills.
Formal proof of wills prepared without a lawyer: Worked on matters seeking formal proof and court acceptance of wills prepared with non-lawyer assistance.
Beneficiary objections to accounts and releases: Worked on matters where beneficiaries challenged a personal representative’s accounting or proposed release.
Beneficiaries residing outside Canada: Assisted with estate matters involving non-responsive or uncooperative beneficiaries abroad, including seeking directions to pay their distributive entitlements into court.

Selected Publications and Scholarship

“The Roles of Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) in Judicial Systems with Emphasis on Canada and Alberta,” 59:3 Alberta Law Review (published), DOI: 10.29173/alr2690.
“When the Algorithmic Advocate Hallucinates the Law: Standards Governing Generative AI in Courts and Legal Practice,” forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (Fall 2026).
“When Ownership Is Not Control: A Functional Control Framework for Technology Assets in Canadian Commercial Law,” forthcoming in the Canadian Business Law Journal (Vol.72).

Education and Training

Intellectual Property: Strategy, Commercialization, and the Patent Pathway, University of Alberta Continuing Education, 2026
Certificate of Qualification, Internationally Trained Lawyer Pathway (J.D. equivalent), University of Alberta, 2022
PhD, Public International Law, University of Tehran
LL.M., International Law, University of Tehran
LL.B., University of Tehran