I just picked up this teeny abstract from the New York Law Journal, because it hints, hints hints at some nasty after-death family battles, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
Here’s what I’m reading in it: an old woman has been ill and subsequently dies.\u00a0 And uh-oh! her will is read and uh-oh! some<\/em> family members (we won’t give names because I can’t get the whole article, although I guess I could look the case up in the Surrogate Court files) are not at all happy with the way Winifred left her estate.<\/p>\n So they’ve challenged the will, saying that she was old and sick and didn’t know what she was doing.<\/p>\n However, the Surrogate Court judge said, hang on a minute. Just because she was old and sick doesn’t automatically mean she didn’t have the mental capacity to know how she wanted to write her will and leave her stuff.<\/p>\n Surrogate’s Court, New York County<\/em><\/p>\n Trusts and Estates<\/em><\/p>\n Advanced Age, or Illness Does Not Raise Presumption Against Testamentary Capacity<\/em><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just picked up this teeny abstract from the New York Law Journal, because it hints, hints hints at some nasty after-death family battles, doesn’t it? Here’s what I’m reading in it: an old woman has been ill and subsequently … Continue reading Probate Proceeding, Estate of Winifred Shearer, Deceased, 2012-952<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n