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A hairdresser has been ordered to repay more than 300,000 pounds she inherited from two sisters after the High Court found there to be some confusion over their chosen beneficiaries. Siblings Mabel Cook and Ethel Wilson drew up a joint will in 1991, which stated that their belongings would be left to family and friends.
Mrs Cook passed away in 1995, and her sister decided to change the will just two months prior to her own death in 2006. In the newest version of the will, the beneficiary was named as her hairdresser and next-door neighbour Jill Fraser, who had provided assistance in her dying days.
Judge Jonathan Gaunt QC noted that it should have been the job of the sisters' solicitor to inform them of the need to establish what would happen if either of them decided to make alterations to the will. It later emerged that Mrs Wilson had not returned to her original solicitor to make her requests, but one nearer to her home.
The recent version of the will was declared invalid and the original beneficiaries reinstated.
Posted by Christine Moore
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