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Todd v Parsons

[2019] EWHC 3366 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court (Chancery Division)
Year2019
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

The Banks v Goodfellow test (not the Mental Capacity Act 2005) governs testamentary capacity, and challenges by way of undue influence and fraudulent calumny require the challenger to prove, respectively, coercion or fraud overbearing the testator's will and the dishonest poisoning of the testator's mind against a potential beneficiary causing the relevant disposition.

Area of Law

General

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