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Capacity – Wills

15/08/201902/12/2017 by dwillis
mental capacity to make a will

In Kunicki v Hayward [2016] EWHC 3199 (Ch) the High Court rejected a claim of fraudulent calumny in a probate claim. The deceased had capacity when he signed his will. He both knew and approved it’s contents. The court so held in this case where it was alleged that there was a contract to share the deceased’s estate.

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Categories Legal, Private Client, Wills Tags beneficiaries, capacity, charities, Wills
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