Two recent decisions from the British Columbia Court of Appeal, Kroeger v. Bush Estate, 2026 BCCA 16, and Lewis v. Jack, 2026 BCCA 18, provide ...

The validity of a will is formally challenged in what is known as a caveat proceeding. A caveat proceeding is effectively a type of lawsuit ...

Whether a decedent had sufficient testamentary capacity to make a will arises frequently in trusts and estates practice. Was the decedent of "sound mind" with the necessary mental ability to ...

DEAR JEFF: I took my father to an attorney’s office to have a new will drawn up. They refused to let him sign because they said he didn’t have “testamentary capacity.” What does this mean? Don’t they ...

Surrogate L pez Torres http://nycourts.law.com/CourtDocumentViewer.asp?view=Document&docID=91855 OBJECTANTS, decedent's cousins, sought dismissal of the probate ...

Maria is a 90 year old, hardworking woman who raised four kids and some grandkids as well. She quit her humble work as a housecleaner when her husband fell ill. She stayed home to care for him. She ...

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The death of a loved one will almost always illicit any repressed feelings and grudges held by his heirs to come front and center, which is usually a recipe for disaster as far as the disposition of ...

A BITTER legal battle has unfolded in court between two siblings after a mother disinherited her daughter in favour of her son. The daughter claims her mother lacked mental capacity due to chronic ...