What are the "suspicious circumstances" in the context of a will?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sontag v. Lennox et al., 2000 BCSC 1553 (CanLII):
Justice Sopinka said this in Vout v. Hay (at para. 25): 25 … The suspicious circumstances may be raised by (1) circumstances surrounding the preparation of the will, (2) circumstances tending to call into question the capacity of the testator, or (3) circumstances tending to show that the free will of the testator was overborne by acts of coercion or fraud. …
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