Nemazee v Nemazee [2020] WTLR 637
Summer 2020 #179On 27 May 2015 the deceased entered into four transactions: first, a long lease of her flat, in exercise of her right to buy; second, a legal charge over her leasehold interest in favour of the defendants; third, a declaration of trust that she held the leasehold interest on trust for herself and her granddaughter as beneficial joint tenants; fourth, a will leaving her residuary estate to her three sons in equal shares. The claimant sons initially claimed that the deceased lacked capacity to execute the will and declaration of trust, and pleaded lack of knowledge and approval and/or undu...
Williams v Martin
July/August 2016 #161Joy Williams brought a claim for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 against the estate of her deceased partner Norman Martin. Her claim was brought both on the basis that for a period of two years before Mr Martin’s death she had been living in the same household with him as his wife (s1(1)(ba)) and alternatively on the basis that she was wholly or partly maintained by the deceased (s1(1)(e)).
At the date of his death Mr Martin remained married to his wife Maureen Martin, though they ...