Where there’s a Will
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Your recent article, Rise in number of intestacy disputes, highlighted two interesting issues: hard times encourage people to contest inheritances; and intestacies offer more opportunities for such disputes to take place. My summary of this state of affairs is that necessity and greed are powerful motivators of human behaviour, and death brings out the best and worst in us.
Even if the numbers in the Wedlake Bell research are not huge, the trend is worrying. And it is easy to imagine that, in straitened times, the rapid and relatively steep rise in inheritance disputes will only get steeper.
