Wills – revocation

December 2024/January 2025 | Wills, probate and administration
By tearing up a will or otherwise destroying it intentionally, a testator can revoke their will (s20 WA 1837). A recent case concerned whether T had sufficient mental capacity to make a deathbed revocation of her will by tearing it three quarters of the way through. Her solicitor helped her tear through the rest of …
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