Hi all, hope you're keeping safe.
Not sure which forum to put this in - happy for Moderator to move if appropriate.
Scenario is as follows. In 2018, elderly widower changes the will he made jointly with wife in 1980s. He does it all properly, using a solicitor and include a handwritten letter explaining the changes he wants to make and his reasons for doing so.
The family suspect that one of his children is thinking of getting him to sign a third Will (produced by said daughter using an internet proforma), leaving the entirety of his estate to her. Although legally he has capacity in that he can understand and make a decision at the point when an issue is explained to him, his memory loss is now so significant that 30.minutes later, he has no recollection of the decision or even the explanatory conversation. His GP has referred him for assessment for possible dementia but because of Covid, that assessment has not yet taken place.
The daughter in question was required by the family to repay a large sum of money three years ago which she had taken from his bank account under the guise of 'caring' for him. Family thought they'd put up a firewall round his finances to protect him from future exploitation, but they're worried that she may be up to get old tricks again, getting him a bit tiddly and shoving a document in front of him to sign.
I would like to think a Will produced and even signed in such circumstances would be invalid.
Can anyone reassure/advise me?
Thanks in advance.
Not sure which forum to put this in - happy for Moderator to move if appropriate.
Scenario is as follows. In 2018, elderly widower changes the will he made jointly with wife in 1980s. He does it all properly, using a solicitor and include a handwritten letter explaining the changes he wants to make and his reasons for doing so.
The family suspect that one of his children is thinking of getting him to sign a third Will (produced by said daughter using an internet proforma), leaving the entirety of his estate to her. Although legally he has capacity in that he can understand and make a decision at the point when an issue is explained to him, his memory loss is now so significant that 30.minutes later, he has no recollection of the decision or even the explanatory conversation. His GP has referred him for assessment for possible dementia but because of Covid, that assessment has not yet taken place.
The daughter in question was required by the family to repay a large sum of money three years ago which she had taken from his bank account under the guise of 'caring' for him. Family thought they'd put up a firewall round his finances to protect him from future exploitation, but they're worried that she may be up to get old tricks again, getting him a bit tiddly and shoving a document in front of him to sign.
I would like to think a Will produced and even signed in such circumstances would be invalid.
Can anyone reassure/advise me?
Thanks in advance.
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