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Spouse's Inheritance Right's

artmonkey52 · 2013-01-18 14:36:23

My sister's husband died at Christmas. His daughter (approx. 50 years old) from his first marriage visited him at home after leaving hospital to die. This daughter had hand written a will which she (apparently) coherced her father to sign whist my sister was out of the room and witnessed by two elderly aunts (his sisters).…

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RAS Posts: 35,473 Forumite

21 January 2013 at 11:39AM

That was one case I was thinking about.

If the dad was on morphine or any other major pain-killer, I think medical advice would be that he was not legally able to make a new will.

I am very concerned that a widow should lose all the personal effects of her current husband; I cannot think a court would support that and legal pressure might work without going to court.

What does the son by the first marriage think (is this his full sister)

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