2021 QCCA 762, 2021 QCCA 762

Phillips c. Succession de Douek 2021 QCCA 762 COURT OF APPEAL CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC REGISTRY OF MONTREAL No: 500-09-029302-213 ( 500-17-078480-137 ) MINUTES OF HEARING DATE: May 3, 2021 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE MARK SCHRAGER, J.A. STEPHEN W. HAMILTON, J.A. CHRISTINE BAUDOUIN, J.A.

APPELLANT COUNSEL ROSLYN GOTHELF PHILLIPS Mtre HENRI ALTSCHULER ( Lazare & Altschuler ) By videoconference RESPONDENT COUNSEL ESTATE OF THE LATE BERTHA GOLIGER DOUEK Mtre ROBERT PANCER ( Phillips Friedman Kotler ) By videoconference IMPLEADED PARTIES MAUREEN ROSEN DOUEK NICOLE MAGDER DOUEK ESTATE OF THE LATE ALBERT DOUEK OFFICIER DE LA PUBLICITÉ DES DROITS DE LA CIRCONSCRIPTION DE MONTRÉAL UNREPRESENTED AND ABSENT On appeal from a judgment rendered on December 23, 2020 by the Honourable Dominique Poulin of the Superior Court , District of Montreal .

DESCRIPTION: Application to dismiss an appeal (Article 365 C.C.P .) Application for leave to appeal de bene esse (Article 30 C.C.P .) Preliminary exception (Article 166 C.C.P .) Clerk at the hearing : Robert Osadchuck Courtroom: Pierre-Basile-Mignault HEARING 12:12 Commencement of the hearing.

Identification of counsel. 12:12 Submissions by Mtre Altschuler on the preliminary exception. 12:15 Recess of the hearing. 12 h 17 Resumption of the hearing. 12 h 17 Judgment on the preliminary exception. 12 h18 Submissions of Mtre Altschuler. 12:31 Submissions of Mtre Pancer. 12:35 Recess. 12:36 Resumption of the hearing. 12:44 By the Court: judgment – see page 3.

Robert Osadchuck, Clerk at the hearing JUDGMENT Moyen préliminaire : [ 1 ] La Cour, exerçant ses pouvoirs de gestion, a compétence pour devancer l’audition d’une requête, et ce, nonobstant que cette requête a été déférée à une autre formation par le juge unique. [ 2 ] La chose jugée ne s’applique pas à ces mesures de gestion.

POUR CES MOTIFS, LA COUR : [ 3 ] REJETTE le moyen préliminaire, avec les frais de justice. “Requête pour permission d’appeler d’un jugement rendu par la Cour supérieure de bene esse ” and Application to dismiss the appeal: [ 4 ] The Appellant obtained a judgment from the Superior Court on March 19, 2020, currently under appeal, that condemns the estate of the deceased. Albert Douek, to pay her $700,000. [1] To secure that judgment, she published a legal hypothec against an undivided one-half interest in an immoveable property under

Article 2730 C.c.Q. [ 5 ] The immoveable property belongs to the estate of the deceased’s wife. The deceased was never a co-owner. If the property formed part of the family patrimony, as alleged by the Appellant, the deceased (and thus, his estate) would have a claim in personam

against the wife’s estate for one-half of the net value of the family patrimony, but no right of ownership in the immoveable property. [2] [ 6 ] As such, Poulin J.S.C., was correct to order the radiation of the legal hypothec in her judgment of December 23, 2020. The appeal is clearly unfounded and has no reasonable chance of success.

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS, THE COURT: [ 7 ] DISMISSES the “requête pour permission d’appeler d’un jugement rendu par la Cour supérieure de bene esse ” with legal costs; [ 8 ] GRANTS the application to dismiss an appeal of February 16, 2021 with legal costs; [ 9 ] DISMISSES the appeal, with legal costs. MARK SCHRAGER, J.A. STEPHEN W. HAMILTON, J.A. CHRISTINE BAUDOUIN, J.A.