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<br>Two nephews are secured a ₤ 400,000 will contest the fortune of a 'houseproud' widow, who disinherited one side of her household after they [recommended](https://avitotanger.com) she enter into a care home.<br>
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<br>Doreen Stock, 86, passed away childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock, and his wife Catherine, who lived just a few minutes from her south London home.<br>
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<br>But her Michigan-based great-nephew, 39-year-old Ben Chiswick, has actually now introduced a quote to inherit the lot himself - in spite of not visiting or even speaking to her over the phone because his relocate to the US 8 years earlier.<br>
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<br>Propulsion engineer Mr Chiswick had actually been due to acquire her fortune under a previous will composed practically 40 years earlier in 1986 when he was an infant, but was dramatically [disinherited](https://www.phoenixpropertymanagement.co.nz) by his great-aunt a year before her death.<br>
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<br>The row appeared after his parents recommended Ms Stock hang around in a care home while they took pleasure in a three-week vacation.<br>
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<br>Fighting to reinstate the previous will, Mr Chiswick declares Ms Stock, who he states was a 'fixture in his childhood,' was too stricken by dementia to effectively understand what she was doing when she altered her [testament](https://www.proptisgh.com).<br>
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<br>However, Simon and his spouse are fighting the case, declaring Mr Chiswick - who has actually resided in the US given that 2017 - had no with Ms Stock beyond his early years while Mr Stock had actually been 'the nearby thing to a boy she had'.<br>
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<br>Sitting at Central London County Court, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon heard that 'independent' and occasionally 'persistent' Ms Stock had a deep psychological accessory to her home in Charminster Road, Mottingham, having shared it with her spouse Samuel up until his death in 2001.<br>
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<br>Ben Chiswick, 39, imagined right with father Brent, is challenging Doreen Stock's will in the courts after she disinherited him a year before her death<br>
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<br>Doreen Stock, 86, passed away childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock (imagined), and his other half Catherine<br>
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<br>Without any kids of her own, Ms Stock's very first will, made in 1986, left her estate to Mr Chiswick, child of her niece Patricia Chiswick and hubby Brent.<br>
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<br>The estate mainly contains the Mottingham house, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000.<br>
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<br>The court heard Ms Stock had had a great relationship with the Chiswicks, who assisted her with her shopping and visited her frequently.<br>
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<br>She even made a long lasting power of lawyer in their favour, but before she died withdrawed the file and altered her will, leaving everything to a nephew on her husband's side.<br>
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<br>Challenging the will, Mr Chiswick claims that his great-aunt's dementia in her final years suggests there is severe doubt whether she had the necessary [capability](https://patrimoniomallorca.com) to make the modifications.<br>
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<br>And he stated the truth there was no discussion with his side of the family about the new will recommended 'something not right' about her change of mind.<br>
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<br>'Doreen and I had an actually happy relationship and she understood that leaving her estate to me would make an enormous distinction to my life,' he said in his proof.<br>
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<br>For Simon and Catherine, lawyer James McKean told the court that Ms Stock had also been close to Simon, who was 'the nearest thing to a boy she had,' contributing to his school fees as a child.<br>
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<br>And although she formerly had a close relationship with Mr Chiswick's moms and dads, that was ruined when they recommended she enter into a care home in 2019.<br>
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<br>Patricia had actually then set up for a 'capacity assessment' for her aunt, which the lawyer said resulted in Ms Stock fearing her self-reliance was being threatened and ultimately changing her will.<br>
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<br>The [estate principally](https://www.aws-properties.com) contains the Mottingham house, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000<br>
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<br>The court heard there had been 'structure resentment' with the method her power of lawyer was being administered, which 'finally boiled over in the summer of 2019 when the Chiswicks made an ill-judged - though maybe well-intentioned - tip to Doreen that she invest a period in residential care.<br>
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<br>'Doreen was, by all accounts, jealously independent. It is little wonder that she found the proposal to be [alarming](https://riserealbali.com) and offending.<br>
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<br>'No doubt Doreen was fretted about the possibility of going into a home, then was asked to undergo the capacity assessment, and put 2 and 2 together.'<br>
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<br>Within weeks of the assessment, which led to a report stating she 'lacked capacity,' she had begun actions to revoke the power of lawyer and make a new will in Simon and Catherine's favour, he informed the judge.<br>
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<br>Quizzing Patricia Chiswick in the witness box, he included: 'Doreen liked her home and it had actually been her and [Samuel's](https://mrentals.ca) home before his death. There was a deep emotional connection to that residential or commercial property.<br>
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<br>'Saying to Doreen that she should leave that residential or commercial property and invest some time in a care home stank to her, wasn't it?<br>
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<br>'From Doreen's point of view, this must have looked a genuine danger to her self-reliance.'<br>
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<br>But Patricia denied upsetting the pensioner, firmly insisting that the [strategy](https://magnoliasresidence.com) was just ever for a brief break in a care home while she and her spouse went on holiday.<br>
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<br>'It was just an idea because we do not typically go away for 3 weeks at a time, and I think she had actually been rather weak and her health was degrading in general,' she stated.<br>
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<br>'I was concerned about [leaving](https://www.ilfarmandrecland.com) her and I believed it would be quite good if she might go somewhere where she might be cared for while we were away.<br>
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<br>'It was absolutely stressed that it was for three weeks. There was no recommendation she was going to stay there indefinitely.'<br>
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<br>The Chiswicks did not check out Ms Stock again between the capability assessment in 2019 and her death in May 2021.<br>
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<br>For [Patricia's](http://www.spbrealtor.ru) son Mr Chiswick, who is the complaintant in the case, barrister Simon Lane said that, at the time she made the brand-new will, she was 'susceptible and was behaving out of character.'<br>
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<br>The 2019 evaluation carried out after the suggestion of a care home relocation had led to an expert's finding that she 'did not have capacity,' he stated.<br>
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<br>But Mr McKean stated the [assessment](https://areafada.com) was lacking, with Ms Stock responding to with 'irritable hostility' when she was quizzed about things that made no sense to her, such as a fire which never ever actually took place.<br>
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<br>Other assessments around the very same time had led to findings that she did have capability, although she was suffering with 'moderate' dementia,' he stated.<br>
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<br>'Doreen might have had some memory issues, however capability and memory are different beasts,' he stated.<br>
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<br>'The court will have a hard time to find any evidence of impaired cognition or reasoning. On the contrary, Doreen's behaviour, values and thinking were constant and possible at all times.'<br>
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<br>He stated there was factor for her to choose to change her will, the last being made more than thirty years previously, and that already Mr Chiswick - living and dealing with the other side of the Atlantic - would have been 'far from her mind as a beneficiary.'<br>
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<br>He had actually not seen her again and even spoken on the phone after moving to the US, while many of the proof of their relationship came from when he was a child.<br>
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<br>On the other hand, Mr Stock and his other half had actually had the ability to visit her regularly, living not far from her in Eltham, south London, he said.<br>
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<br>'The court can be stunned neither by the making of the disputed will, nor by Doreen's choice of beneficiaries,' he included.<br>
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<br>The judge is anticipated to give her judgment on the case at a later date.<br>[libertyblitzkrieg.com](https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/09/19/a-tale-of-two-subprime-homes-and-autos/)
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