Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2021 #183Alan and Margaret Bailey were a married couple who died each aged 71 within a few months of each other in 2019, leaving no children. Each left a will dated 28 May 2009 appointing the other as sole executor and sole beneficiary. After Mrs Bailey had passed away Mr Bailey attended a solicitor to make a new will, but it was not executed before he also died. The gift to his wife under his 2009 will failed, as she had predeceased him, and passed under the law of intestacy to his next of kin.
Mrs Bailey’s sister and brother, the claimants, claimed that the couple had made gifts of...
Mark Pawlowski examines to what extent it is possible to make a deathbed gift of land ‘The handing over of keys to the house… may be capable of evidencing the passing of dominion over it because, although keys do not represent ownership of the property, they nevertheless constitute the physical means of obtaining possession.’ Essentially, …
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