Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2017 #169The Deceased was married to James Ball. They had had eleven children, including the three claimants and eight of the nine defendants. In or around 1991, the family split, when the three claimants reported their father to the police for sexually abusing them when they were younger. The Deceased felt that the complaints were exaggerated, and was annoyed that they had been made public. As a result, on 27 May 1992 the Deceased made a will excluding those three claimants from benefit, dividing her estate between her eight remaining children and one of her grandsons. The will was professional ...
Claims against the estate will turn on the facts, whatever the circumstances. Sabina Haag discusses the outcome of a case in which abused children were disinherited ‘According to the judge a mistake would only be relevant if it was the symptom of some underlying condition such as, for example, dementia, which removed capacity.’ Inheritance issues …
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