Legal Assistant Can Assess Capacity

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 17, 2012

Tags: Justice Cleo E. Powell, Supreme Court of Virginia, Wills & Trusts

A lawyer’s legal assistant could determine that a hospitalized client had testamentary capacity to change her will to leave her estate to her daughter Mary Ann who cared for her, in contrast to an earlier will that divided the estate among her five children, and the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses the trial court decision ...

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