Can a competent, executed will be displaced or set aside by the courts?

The appellants point to no authority in Ontario for the proposition that a competent testator’s autonomous distribution of his or her property as reflected in a properly executed will may be displaced or set aside by the courts in the exercise of their discretion pursuant to some alleged overarching concept of a parent’s moral obligation to provide on death for his or her independent, adult children. The cases relied on by the appellants in support of their moral obligation claim emanate from a different province (British Columbia) and involve legislation from that province that knows no counterpart in Ontario. See Tataryn v. Tataryn Estate, 1994 CanLII 51 (SCC), [1994] 2 S.C.R. 807. These cases, therefore, do not assist the appellants.