Knowledge and approval

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1. 01

   Inference from execution

   Say the basic rule for knowledge and approval in one sentence: when will the court usually infer it?

2. 02

   Knowledge vs execution

   How is knowledge and approval different from due execution, and why does that matter in a validity challenge?

3. 03

   Suspicious circumstances

   Name the kinds of facts that make the court suspicious enough to question knowledge and approval, especially where a beneficiary helped prepare the will.

4. 04

   Proving approval

   If suspicious circumstances are present, who has to prove what, and to what standard in practical terms?

5. 05

   Beneficiary drafting risk

   A client says, ‘My parent signed the will, so it must be valid.’ What is the safest correction you would give?

6. 06

   Signed but unread will

   How would you analyse a will where the testator had capacity, signed it personally, but did not read it and the main beneficiary arranged the drafting?

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