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Two nephews are locked in a ₤ 400,000 will contest the fortune of a 'houseproud' widow, who disinherited one side of her family after they suggested she go into a care home.
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Doreen Stock, 86, died childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock, and his spouse Catherine, who lived just a few minutes from her south London home.
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But her Michigan-based great-nephew, 39-year-old Ben Chiswick, has actually now launched a quote to inherit the lot himself - in spite of not visiting or perhaps speaking with her over the phone considering that his relocation to the US 8 years back.
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Propulsion engineer Mr Chiswick had been because of inherit her fortune under a previous will composed practically 40 years back in 1986 when he was a baby, but was significantly disinherited by his great-aunt a year before her death.
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The row appeared after his parents recommended Ms Stock hang around in a care home while they took pleasure in a three-week holiday.
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Fighting to renew the previous will, Mr Chiswick claims Ms Stock, who he states was a 'component in his youth,' was too stricken by dementia to appropriately comprehend what she was doing when she changed her testament.
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However, Simon and his better half are combating the case, declaring Mr Chiswick - who has actually resided in the US since 2017 - had no 'significant relationship' with Ms Stock beyond his early years while Mr Stock had been 'the closest thing to a son she had'.
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Sitting at Central London County Court, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon heard that 'independent' and sometimes ['persistent'](https://realzip.com.au) Ms Stock had a deep emotional attachment to her home in Charminster Road, Mottingham, having actually shared it with her husband Samuel until his death in 2001.
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Ben Chiswick, 39, visualized right with dad Brent, is challenging Doreen Stock's will in the courts after she [disinherited](https://avitotanger.com) him a year before her death
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Doreen Stock, 86, died childless in 2021 and left her whole estate to her nephew, Simon Stock (imagined), and his wife Catherine
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Without any children of her own, Ms Stock's first will, made in 1986, left her estate to Mr Chiswick, boy of her niece Patricia [Chiswick](https://elitehostels.co.ke) and spouse Brent.
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The estate primarily contains the Mottingham house, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000.
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The court heard Ms Stock had actually had an excellent relationship with the Chiswicks, who helped her with her shopping and visited her routinely.
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She even made a lasting power of attorney in their favour, but before she passed away withdrawed the file and altered her will, leaving everything to a nephew on her husband's side.
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Challenging the will, Mr Chiswick declares that his great-aunt's dementia in her final years implies there is major doubt whether she had the needed capability to make the modifications.
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And he stated the reality there was no discussion with his side of the family about the new will recommended 'something not right' about her modification of mind.
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'Doreen and I had a truly delighted relationship and she understood that leaving her estate to me would make a huge difference to my life,' he stated in his evidence.
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For Simon and Catherine, lawyer James McKean told the court that Ms Stock had actually also been close to Simon, who was 'the closest thing to a kid she had,' contributing to his school charges as a child.
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And although she formerly had a close relationship with Mr Chiswick's moms and dads, that was ruined when they suggested she go into a care home in 2019.
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Patricia had actually then scheduled a 'capacity assessment' for her auntie, which the lawyer said caused Ms Stock fearing her self-reliance was being threatened and ultimately changing her will.
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The estate principally contains the Mottingham home, which is [valued online](https://staystaycations.com) at about ₤ 400,000
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The court heard there had been 'building bitterness' with the way her power of attorney was being administered, which 'lastly boiled over in the summertime of 2019 when the Chiswicks made an ill-judged - though maybe well-intentioned - tip to Doreen that she invest a duration in property care.
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'Doreen was, by all accounts, jealously independent. It is little marvel that she found the proposal to be disconcerting and offensive.
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'No doubt Doreen was fretted about the possibility of going into a home, then was asked to go through the capacity assessment, and put 2 and 2 together.'
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Within weeks of the evaluation, which led to a report specifying she 'did not have capacity,' she had started steps to revoke the power of lawyer and make a new will in Simon and Catherine's favour, he [informed](https://libhomes.com) the judge.
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Quizzing Patricia Chiswick in the witness box, he added: 'Doreen loved her home and it had been her and Samuel's home before his death. There was a deep psychological connection to that residential or commercial property.
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'Saying to Doreen that she should leave that residential or commercial property and spend some time in a care home was offending to her, wasn't it?
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'From Doreen's viewpoint, this should have looked a [genuine](https://ladygracebandb.com) danger to her self-reliance.'
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But Patricia rejected disturbing the pensioner, insisting that the plan was just ever for a brief break in a care home while she and her hubby went on holiday.
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'It was merely a tip due to the fact that we do not usually disappear for 3 weeks at a time, and I believe she had actually been rather unwell and her health was deteriorating in general,' she stated.
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'I was [concerned](https://trianglebnb.com) about leaving her and I believed it would be rather good if she might go someplace where she could be looked after while we were away.
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'It was absolutely stressed that it was for three weeks. There was no idea she was going to stay there indefinitely.'
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The [Chiswicks](https://leaphighproperties.com) did not check out Ms Stock once again between the capacity evaluation in 2019 and her death in May 2021.
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For Patricia's boy Mr Chiswick, who is the complaintant in the case, lawyer Simon Lane said that, at the time she made the [brand-new](https://dazhomes.com) will, she was 'susceptible and was [behaving](https://commercialproperty.im) out of character.'
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The 2019 evaluation carried out after the recommendation of a care home relocation had actually led to an expert's finding that she 'did not have capacity,' he stated.
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But Mr McKean said the evaluation was lacking, with Ms Stock answering with 'irritable hostility' when she was quizzed about things that made no sense to her, such as a fire which never really happened.
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Other assessments around the very same time had actually resulted in findings that she did have capability, although she was [experiencing 'moderate'](https://acebrisk.com) dementia,' he said.
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'Doreen may have had some memory problems, however capacity and memory are various monsters,' he stated.
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'The court will struggle to find any evidence of impaired cognition or thinking. On the contrary, [Doreen's](https://estatedynamicltd.com) behaviour, values and thinking corresponded and possible at all times.'
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He said there was factor for her to decide to alter her will, the last being made more than 30 years previously, which already Mr Chiswick - living and working on the other side of the [Atlantic -](https://canaryrealty.com) would have been 'far from her mind as a [recipient](https://renthouz.my).'
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He had not seen her again and even spoken on the phone after transferring to the US, while the majority of the evidence of their came from when he was a kid.
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On the other hand, Mr Stock and his better half had been able to visit her frequently, living not far from her in Eltham, south London, he said.
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'The court can be surprised neither by the making of the challenged will, nor by Doreen's option of beneficiaries,' he included.
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The judge is anticipated to provide her judgment on the case at a later date.
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