{"id":6277,"date":"2018-10-19T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2018-10-19T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:23:21","slug":"forger-lack-of-testamentary-capacity-and-undue-influence-not-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6277","title":{"rendered":"Forgery, Lack of Testamentary Capacity, and Undue Influence Not Proven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgery is not proved by the testimony of the decedent&#8217;s children that the signature on the will does not look like the decedent&#8217;s when the decedent&#8217;s lawyer and the subscribing witnesses to the will all testify that they saw the decedent sign the will.\u00a0 Evidence of physical weakness, and of some episodes of delirium and short-term memory loss, were insufficient to show lack of testamentary capacity or weakened intellect for purposes of undue influence.\u00a0 The existence of a confidential relationship was also not proved when there was no evidence that the long-time friends who benefited from the will ever made any decisions for the decedent or ever managed his money.\u00a0 <em>Estate of Barnabas Roczey<\/em>, 8 Fid.Rep.3d 253 (Monroe O.C. 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgery is not proved by the testimony of the decedent&#8217;s children that the signature on the will does not look like the decedent&#8217;s when the decedent&#8217;s lawyer and the subscribing witnesses to the will all testify that they saw the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=6277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[227,165,75],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-forgery","tag-testamentary-capacity","tag-undue-influence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}