Dunbabin & ors v Dunbabin (costs) [2022] WTLR 935
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2022 #188On 10 February 2022 judgment was delivered on a claim brought under Part 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules in relation to issues which had arisen in the administration of the estates of Angela and John Dunbabin. The main issue related to the question whether they had severed their beneficial joint tenancy, so as to hold the legal title to their residence upon trust for themselves as tenants in common in equal shares, with the result that on the death of Angela her half share devolved according to the terms of her will instead of passing automatically by survivorship to John. The cl...
Re McKeen [2013] EWHC 3639 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | April 2014 #138The main action was a contentious probate dispute in which the defendant, who was the younger sister of the deceased, sought to overturn all of his five wills on the grounds of lack of testamentary capacity. The deceased had suffered from severe schizophrenia throughout his lifetime. The claimants were the residuary legatees of his final will, entitling them to the lion-share of the deceased’s considerable estate. In his main judgment, the judge accepted that the deceased’s condition was severe. He acknowledged that this placed the burden of proof on the claimants to establis...