Sentences with word «testatrix»

A Testator / Testatrix who writes something that purports to revoke a Will, with an intention to revoke a Will, and executed in accordance with provincial legislation (e.g. signed in front of 2 appropriate witnesses, etc.) will also revoke a Will.

The testatrix was a resident of Ontario.

Last Wills and Testaments (this can be overcome if it is shown that it was destroyed without an intent to revoke the Will, e.g., in a house fire that also killed the testator or testatrix).

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The only documents that lose their validity when the original is physically destroyed sufficiently are: Last Wills and Testaments (this can be overcome if it is shown that it was destroyed without an intent to revoke the Will, e.g., in a house fire that also killed the testator or testatrix).

An Ontario court ordered the rectification of the testatrix's secondary will to eliminate duplicate bequests and to insert a residue clause.

The appeal court found that the testatrix had intended to give the residue of her estate to a charitable organization in Vancouver concerned with the relief of suffering of pets and animals.

There were some suspicious circumstances, said the trial judge, but the solicitor involved had given evidence that the testatrix had understood the effect of the document he had drawn up for her to sign.

Whether or not the testatrix knew and approved the will was a matter of fact, the burden of proof falling on the defendant daughter.

The claimants were the grandchildren of the testatrix.

The testatrix had been diagnosed to have had early onset of Alzheimer's disease some years before her death but it was held that she still had capacity — mild to moderate dementia not being a condition which, by itself, need necessarily impair capacity.

Undue influence In the first of these, Scammell and another v Farmer (2008) EWHC 1100 (Ch), [2008] All ER (D) 296 (May) the testatrix had died in 2003.

In the case, Sproul Estate v. Sproul, the testatrix, Ann Sproul, had purchased a house in 1989 with her husband, Leonard, together... read more

A guardian is a person appointed under a Will to look after the testator / testatrix's children until they reach the age of majority.

Holograph wills are hand - written by the Testator / Testatrix and are considered to be valid Wills in some provinces (but there are significant limitations to them).

Elspeth represented the Independent Administrator in claims regarding the testamentary capacity of a testatrix suffering with dementia.

Having initially asserted that the will was invalid by reason of a rebuttable presumption that G, by being involved in the preparation of the will which primarily benefited herself, had unduly influenced the testatrix (T), W dropped that claim.

This is not a provision that the testator or testatrix (i.e. the person writing a will) may waive in advance.

I routinely write wills that authorize the executor to destroy property that has no significant economic or sentimental value, but I've never encountered a case where a testator or testatrix has directed that property be destroyed and I've never seen a reported case (or even a news report) in which that has happened.