What suspicious circumstances may be raised in a will?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Maddess v. Racz, 2008 BCSC 1550 (CanLII):
As discussed in para. 25 of Vout v. Hay, suspicious circumstances may be raised by the following: 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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