PROBATE & INHERITANCE · ENGLAND & WALES

Do you have grounds to contest a will?

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✓Full AI analysis of your legal grounds, lack of capacity, undue influence, Inheritance Act and more

✓Evidence assessment, what you have and what you still need

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Sample Brief

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Case Preparation Brief

Standing Case Assessment

SC-2026-SAMPLE

England and Wales

Your Situation — In Plain English

← Written for you, not a lawyer

Following your father's death in March 2025, you discovered that a will signed just six weeks before his death leaves the family home entirely to your sister — despite 30 years of previous wills dividing the estate equally between you both. During the final two months of his life, your father was living with your sister, had limited contact with you, and was under treatment for vascular dementia. The most important question is whether he had the mental capacity to make a new will, and whether the change was truly his own decision.

Legal Grounds Identified

← 3 grounds found in your case

1. Lack of Testamentary Capacity

Likely

A diagnosis of vascular dementia, combined with the timing of the will (six weeks before death) and a GP record from the same month noting significant cognitive decline, raises a strong arguable case that your father did not meet the Banks v Goodfellow test when he signed. His GP records are the critical next step.

2. Undue Influence

Possible

The combination of isolation from other family members, your sister acting as sole carer, and her being the sole beneficiary of the new will creates suspicious circumstances. This ground is harder to prove but the pattern of control and isolation is evidentially relevant.

3. Fraudulent Calumny

Requires investigation

Three family members have reported that your sister told your father you had stolen money from him — an allegation that is demonstrably false. If this can be proved, it goes directly to why the will was changed and is one of the strongest grounds available.

Evidence Strengths

← What you already have

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GP record from February 2025 noting "significant short-term memory impairment and confusion" — 6 weeks before the will was signed

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Three independent witnesses who can testify to the fraudulent calumny allegation

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30 years of consistent previous wills dividing the estate equally — strong evidence of prior settled intention

Recommended Next Steps

Obtain your father's GP records via a Subject Access Request — this is your single most important piece of evidence and can be requested free of charge.

Send a Larke v Nugus letter to the solicitor who drafted the new will requesting their full file including attendance notes and any capacity assessment.

Obtain a formal witness statement from each of the three family members who can testify about the false allegation.

Your brief includes recommended next steps, risk factors, and missing evidence — specific to your situation.

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