Renata Ford ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in legal fees for work on Rob Ford estate

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The widow of the former Toronto mayor has been ordered by a court to pay costs arising from the disbursement of his estate and business affairs

Her lawyers filed court documents in June 2020, seeking the money. The brief ruling notes that there were three invoices issued, for $30,507.88 on April 4, 2018; $214,633.29 on Dec. 31, 2018 and $36,355.43 on April 17, 2019.

Respectively, each invoice has also accrued $858.82, $3,881.04 and $497.52 in interest, leading to a total $286,733.98 owed by Ford to her lawyers.Article content The leader of the People’s Party of Canada. Maxime Bernier. speaks at the campaign office of Etobicoke North candidate Renata Ford, in Toronto on September 11, 2019.On March 4, 2021, a judge dismissed the motion when the law firm asked for a default judgment — basically, when the other party doesn’t do anything, the court makes a decision without hearing their input — because the motion hadn’t been served to Ford.

The judge ordered Ford to pay $290,551.86, which includes $3,817.88 in interest accrued between Feb. 26, 2020 and Jan. 15, 2021. Since Rob Ford’s death in 2016, Renata Ford ran as a candidate in Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada in the riding of Etobicoke North in the 2019 federal election. She lost.

 

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