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Two nephews are secured a ₤ 400,000 will battle over 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, passed away childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock, and his partner 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 now introduced a bid to acquire the lot himself - in spite of not checking out and even speaking with her over the phone considering that his transfer to the US 8 years ago.
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Propulsion engineer Mr Chiswick had been because of inherit her fortune under a previous will composed almost 40 years ago in 1986 when he was a child, but was dramatically disinherited by his great-aunt a year before her death.
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The row erupted after his parents recommended Ms Stock hang around in a care home while they delighted in a three-week vacation.
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Fighting to renew the previous will, Mr Chiswick claims Ms Stock, who he states was a 'component in his childhood,' was too stricken by dementia to correctly understand what she was doing when she altered her testimony.
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However, Simon and his other half are fighting the case, claiming Mr Chiswick - who has lived in the US since 2017 - had no 'meaningful relationship' with Ms Stock beyond his early years while Mr Stock had been ['the nearest](https://mrajhi.com.sa) thing to a boy she had'.
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Sitting at Central London County Court, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon heard that 'independent' and periodically 'stubborn' Ms Stock had a deep psychological attachment to her home in Charminster Road, Mottingham, having shared it with her hubby Samuel until his death in 2001.
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Ben Chiswick, 39, visualized right with father Brent, is challenging Doreen Stock's will in the courts after she [disinherited](https://mcsold.ca) him a year before her death
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Doreen Stock, 86, passed away childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock (pictured), and his partner 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 and husband Brent.
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The estate principally consists of the Mottingham home, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000.
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The court heard Ms Stock had had a great relationship with the Chiswicks, who assisted 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 whatever to a nephew on her hubby's side.
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Challenging the will, Mr Chiswick declares that his great-aunt's dementia in her last years suggests there is [severe doubt](https://mcsold.ca) whether she had the required capability to make the changes.
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And he said the reality there was no discussion with his side of the household about the new will suggested 'something not right' about her change of mind.
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'Doreen and I had an actually pleased relationship and she comprehended that leaving her estate to me would make a massive distinction to my life,' he stated in his [evidence](https://realestatescy.com).
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For Simon and Catherine, barrister James McKean told the court that Ms Stock had actually likewise been close to Simon, who was 'the nearest thing to a boy she had,' contributing to his school fees as a child.
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And although she formerly had a close relationship with Mr Chiswick's parents, that was destroyed when they recommended she enter into a care home in 2019.
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Patricia had then organized for a ['capability evaluation'](https://winnerestate-souththailand.com) for her auntie, which the lawyer said caused Ms Stock fearing her was being threatened and ultimately changing her will.
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The estate primarily consists of the Mottingham house, which is [valued online](https://property-d.com) at about ₤ 400,000
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The court heard there had actually been 'structure resentment' with the way her power of attorney was being administered, which 'finally boiled over in the [summertime](https://royalestatesdxb.com) of 2019 when the Chiswicks made an ill-judged - though perhaps well-intentioned - recommendation to Doreen that she spend a period in property care.
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'Doreen was, by all accounts, jealously independent. It is little marvel that she discovered the proposition to be [alarming](https://seedrealty.in) and offending.
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'No doubt Doreen was stressed over the prospect of going into a home, then was asked to [undergo](https://preconcentral.com) the [capacity](https://realestate.kctech.com.np) evaluation, and put two and two together.'
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Within weeks of the evaluation, which led to a report stating she 'lacked capability,' she had actually started actions to withdraw the power of lawyer and make a brand-new will in Simon and Catherine's favour, he told the judge.
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Quizzing Patricia Chiswick in the witness box, he included: 'Doreen liked 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 a long time in a care home was offensive to her, wasn't it?
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['From Doreen's](https://kenyapropertyfinder.com) perspective, this should have looked a real threat to her self-reliance.'
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But Patricia rejected distressing the pensioner, firmly insisting that the plan was just ever for a time-out in a care home while she and her husband went on vacation.
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'It was simply a tip because we do not normally disappear for three weeks at a time, and I think she had actually been rather weak and her health was degrading in general,' she said.
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'I was worried about leaving her and I thought it would be quite great if she might go someplace where she could be taken care of while we were away.
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'It was definitely stressed out that it was for three weeks. There was no suggestion she was going to remain there indefinitely.'
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The Chiswicks did not go to Ms Stock once again between the capability assessment in 2019 and her death in May 2021.
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For Patricia's boy Mr Chiswick, who is the plaintiff in the case, barrister Simon Lane stated that, at the time she made the brand-new will, she was 'vulnerable and was behaving out of character.'
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The 2019 [evaluation conducted](https://www.seabluedestin.com) after the idea of a care home relocation had actually resulted in an expert's finding that she 'did not have capability,' he said.
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But Mr McKean said the [assessment](https://theofferco.com) wanted, with Ms Stock addressing with 'irritable hostility' when she was quizzed about things that made no sense to her, such as a fire which never ever in fact occurred.
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Other evaluations around the same time had led to findings that she did have capacity, although she was experiencing 'moderate' dementia,' he stated.
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'Doreen might have had some memory issues, however capacity and memory are different monsters,' he said.
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'The court will struggle to discover any evidence of impaired cognition or thinking. On the contrary, Doreen's behaviour, values and [thinking corresponded](https://findspace.sg) and possible at all times.'
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He stated there was factor for her to decide to alter her will, the last being made more than thirty years previously, and that already Mr Chiswick - living and working on the other side of the Atlantic - would have been 'far from her mind as a beneficiary.'
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He had not seen her once again or even spoken on the phone after relocating to the US, while the majority of the proof of their relationship originated from when he was a kid.
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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 stated.
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'The court can be stunned neither by the making of the contested will, nor by Doreen's option of beneficiaries,' he included.
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The judge is expected to provide her ruling on the case at a later date.
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