What is the law relating to the law of testamentary capacity and suspicious circumstances?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Wilton v Koestlmaier, 2018 BCSC 1257 (CanLII):

The law relating to testamentary capacity and suspicious circumstances was extensively canvassed by Madam Justice Ballance in Laszlo v. Lawton, 2013 BCSC 305. She canvassed the history relating to the law of testamentary capacity:

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