Re D [2016] EWCOP 35

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | September 2016 #162

This was an appeal of an order allowing an applicant (I) for an order authorising her to execute a statutory will to be released from the obligation to serve the papers on someone entitled to a half share of the estate on intestacy and who would be disinherited if the statutory will was executed.

D was 30 and lived with his mother, I. D had cerebral palsy resulting from complications at birth and had been awarded damages of £3.1m in an action for clinical negligence. I was D’s deputy for property and affairs.

D’s father (F) had no contact with D for over 20 ye...

Re AB [2013] EWHC B39 (COP)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | September 2014 #142

AB was a young adult who had suffered a brain injury. She lived with her mother, stepfather and stepbrother. PQ was her father, whose whereabouts were unknown. In the past he had been physically violent and sectioned. AB’s mother had terminated her relationship with PQ and, apart from occasional contact visits, he had not seen his daughter for years. Mother and daughter subsequently moved and established new lives elsewhere. AB was currently intestate and one of her property and affairs’ deputies made an application for the execution of a statutory will to be authorised on he...