CONTENTIOUS PROBATE - CHALLENGING A WILL

Challenging a Will is becoming more and more common, and whichever side you’re on, it helps to have a specialist contentious probate lawyer alongside to give you good legal advice.

A Will is about the most important document anyone can make, and there are plenty of ways it can go wrong.  As they say, "Where there’s a Will, there’s a relative."

Here are a few of the things contentious probate solicitors hear every day:

- I don’t think she had full mental capacity
- I think she was forced to sign by her domineering husband
- I’m sure there must have been a later Will
- The nephew was always trying to exert undue influence
- How do we know the Will was signed and witnessed properly?
- But she always promised to leave it to me!
- This isn’t what he wanted - he’d be turning in his grave
- Was she legally free to change her Will – they always agreed they never would
- It doesn’t make reasonable financial provision for a dependant
- The firm that drafted the Will must have made a mistake

Our contentious probate solicitors can advise on how to bring or defend a claim for:

• - validity of a will
• - reasonable family provision
• - professional negligence
• - any other dispute about Wills and Intestacy

For legal advice on challenging a Will or how to fight off a challenge, contact Rothera Dowson’s specialist contentious probate lawyer Charles George on 0800 124 4012.