X-Message-Number: 5487
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 21:10:36 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: scorched earth wills

In #5476, John de Rivaz <> writes:
> I was told by a UK solicitor that it is illegal to insert clauses in
> Wills "denying people their rights"

This doesn't make any sense to me.  Surely you can put any condition
you like on your will.  To say that someone has the right to contest a
will is to say that the government may not forbid it.  It isn't to say
that you can't disinherit them for doing so, or that their friends can't
refuse to speak to them, or that their boss can't fire them.
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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