Can a requester receive personal information on someone who is deceased?
Personal information can be released if an individual has been deceased for 20 years or more. Reasonable proof must be provided. Examples of what constitutes reasonable proof include obituary notices, death certificates, photographs of tombstones and provincial vital statistics. If a person has been dead for less than 20 years, the executor or executrix of the estate or, in the case of an individual who has died without a will (intestate), the administrator of the estate, may request the personal information of the deceased. The executor or administrator of the estate does not have an unlimited right of access to all of the deceased’s personal information, only that information which will allow them to fulfil their legal responsibilities to finalize the estate.
