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<br>Two nephews are locked in a ₤ 400,000 will contest the fortune of a 'houseproud' widow, who disinherited one side of her household after they [suggested](https://elegantcyprusproperties.com) she go into a care home.<br>
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<br>Doreen Stock, 86, died childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock, and his other half Catherine, who lived just a few minutes from her south London home.<br>[forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/what-is-property-management/)
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<br>But her Michigan-based great-nephew, 39-year-old Ben Chiswick, has actually now released a bid to inherit the lot himself - in spite of not checking out and even consulting with her over the phone because his relocate to the US eight years back.<br>
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<br>Propulsion engineer Mr Chiswick had been due to acquire her fortune under a previous will composed practically 40 years back in 1986 when he was a baby, however was dramatically disinherited by his great-aunt a year before her death.<br>
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<br>The row appeared after his moms and dads recommended Ms Stock hang out in a care home while they [delighted](https://lefkada-hotels.gr) in a three-week holiday.<br>
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<br>Fighting to renew the previous will, Mr Chiswick declares Ms Stock, who he states was a 'component in his childhood,' was too stricken by dementia to properly understand what she was doing when she changed her testament.<br>
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<br>However, Simon and his partner are combating the case, claiming Mr Chiswick - who has lived in the US since 2017 - had no 'significant relationship' with Ms Stock beyond his early years while Mr Stock had actually been ['the nearest](https://www.phoenixpropertymanagement.co.nz) thing to a child she had'.<br>
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<br>Sitting at Central London County Court, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon heard that 'independent' and periodically 'persistent' Ms Stock had a deep psychological attachment to her home in Charminster Road, Mottingham, having shared it with her partner Samuel up until his death in 2001.<br>
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<br>Ben Chiswick, 39, envisioned right with dad Brent, is challenging Doreen Stock's will in the courts after she [disinherited](https://www.seasideapartments.co.za) him a year before her death<br>
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<br>Doreen Stock, 86, died childless in 2021 and left her whole estate to her nephew, Simon Stock (imagined), and his better half Catherine<br>
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<br>Without any kids of her own, Ms Stock's first will, made in 1986, left her estate to Mr Chiswick, boy of her niece Patricia Chiswick and spouse Brent.<br>
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<br>The estate mainly contains the Mottingham home, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000.<br>
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<br>The court heard Ms Stock had actually had a great relationship with the Chiswicks, who helped her with her shopping and visited her routinely.<br>
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<br>She even made an enduring power of attorney in their favour, but before she passed away withdrawed the file and changed her will, leaving everything to a nephew on her partner's side.<br>
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<br>Challenging the will, Mr Chiswick declares that his great-aunt's dementia in her last years implies there is serious doubt whether she had the necessary capability to make the changes.<br>
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<br>And he stated the fact there was no discussion with his side of the family about the new will [suggested 'something](https://cn.relosh.com) not right' about her change of mind.<br>
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<br>'Doreen and I had a really pleased relationship and she understood that leaving her estate to me would make a huge [difference](https://casaduartelagos.com) to my life,' he stated in his proof.<br>
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<br>For Simon and Catherine, lawyer James McKean informed the court that Ms Stock had actually also been close to Simon, who was ['the closest](https://patrimoniomallorca.com) thing to a kid she had,' contributing to his as a kid.<br>
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<br>And although she formerly had a close relationship with Mr Chiswick's parents, that was messed up when they suggested she enter into a care home in 2019.<br>
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<br>Patricia had then arranged for a ['capability evaluation'](https://patriciogarciapropiedades.com) for her aunt, which the barrister stated caused Ms Stock fearing her independence was being threatened and ultimately altering her will.<br>
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<br>The estate primarily includes the Mottingham home, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000<br>
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<br>Can we present our child 3 of the bedrooms in our house to lower estate tax bill?<br>
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<br>The court heard there had been 'structure resentment' with the method her power of attorney was being administered, which 'lastly boiled over in the summer season of 2019 when the Chiswicks made an ill-judged - though possibly well-intentioned - suggestion to Doreen that she invest a period in residential care.<br>
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<br>'Doreen was, by all accounts, jealously independent. It is little marvel that she discovered the proposition to be alarming and offending.<br>
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<br>'No doubt Doreen was fretted about the possibility of going into a home, then was asked to undergo the capability evaluation, and put two and two together.'<br>
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<br>Within weeks of the evaluation, which resulted in a report stating she 'did not have capability,' she had actually started steps to revoke the power of attorney and make a new will in Simon and [Catherine's](https://staystaycations.com) favour, he told the judge.<br>
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<br>Quizzing Patricia Chiswick in the witness box, he included: 'Doreen enjoyed 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.<br>
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<br>['Saying](https://www.grandemlak.com) to Doreen that she should leave that residential or commercial property and invest a long time in a care home was offending to her, wasn't it?<br>
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<br>['From Doreen's](https://acebrisk.com) perspective, this must have looked a real hazard to her self-reliance.'<br>
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<br>But Patricia rejected upsetting the pensioner, insisting that the strategy was only ever for a time-out in a care home while she and her husband went on vacation.<br>
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<br>'It was just a recommendation because we don't generally disappear for three weeks at a time, and I think she had actually been quite unwell and her health was weakening in general,' she stated.<br>
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<br>'I was concerned about leaving her and I believed it would be rather great if she could go somewhere where she might be taken care of while we were away.<br>
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<br>'It was absolutely stressed out that it was for three weeks. There was no tip she was going to stay there indefinitely.'<br>
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<br>The Chiswicks did not go to Ms Stock again between the capability evaluation in 2019 and her death in May 2021.<br>
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<br>For Patricia's son Mr Chiswick, who is the complaintant in the case, barrister Simon Lane said that, at the time she made the brand-new will, she was 'vulnerable and was acting out of character.'<br>
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<br>The 2019 assessment carried out after the idea of a care home relocation had actually led to a specialist's finding that she 'lacked capacity,' he said.<br>
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<br>But Mr McKean stated the assessment was lacking, with Ms Stock answering with 'irritable hostility' when she was [quizzed](https://www.defclarea.org) about things that made no sense to her, such as a fire which never ever in fact happened.<br>
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<br>Other assessments around the exact same time had actually led to findings that she did have capacity, although she was suffering with 'moderate' dementia,' he said.<br>
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<br>'Doreen might have had some memory problems, but capacity and memory are different monsters,' he said.<br>
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<br>'The court will struggle to find any proof of impaired cognition or reasoning. On the contrary, Doreen's behaviour, worths and thinking were constant and possible at all times.'<br>
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<br>He stated there was reason for her to choose 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](https://pms-servicedapartments.com).'<br>
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<br>He had actually not seen her again and even spoken on the phone after relocating to the US, while most of the evidence of their relationship originated from when he was a kid.<br>
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<br>On the other hand, Mr Stock and his better half had had the ability to visit her regularly, living not far from her in Eltham, south London, he said.<br>
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<br>'The court can be shocked neither by the making of the contested will, nor by Doreen's choice of beneficiaries,' he included.<br>
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<br>The judge is anticipated to offer her judgment on the case at a later date.<br>
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