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Two nephews are locked in a ₤ 400,000 will fight over the fortune of a 'houseproud' widow, who disinherited one side of her family after they recommended she go into a care home.
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Doreen Stock, 86, passed away in 2021 and left her whole estate to her nephew, Simon Stock, and his partner Catherine, who lived only a few minutes from her south London home.
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But her Michigan-based great-nephew, 39-year-old Ben Chiswick, has actually now introduced a quote to acquire the lot himself - despite not going to or perhaps speaking with her over the phone considering that his relocate to the US eight years earlier.
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Propulsion engineer Mr Chiswick had actually been due to inherit her fortune under a previous will written nearly 40 years ago in 1986 when he was a baby, but was considerably disinherited by his great-aunt a year before her death.
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The [row appeared](https://anyhouses.com) after his moms and dads suggested Ms Stock hang out in a care home while they took pleasure in a three-week holiday.
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Fighting to renew the previous will, Mr Chiswick claims Ms Stock, who he states was a 'fixture in his childhood,' was too stricken by dementia to correctly understand what she was doing when she changed her testament.
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However, Simon and his partner are fighting the case, declaring Mr Chiswick - who has [resided](https://www.varni.ae) in the US considering that 2017 - had no ['meaningful relationship'](https://www.machinelinker.com) with Ms Stock beyond his early years while Mr Stock had actually been 'the nearby thing to a boy she had'.
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Sitting at Central London County Court, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon heard that 'independent' and occasionally 'stubborn' Ms Stock had a deep psychological accessory to her home in Charminster Road, Mottingham, having actually shared it with her husband Samuel till his death in 2001.
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Ben Chiswick, 39, pictured right with father Brent, is challenging Doreen Stock's will in the courts after she disinherited him a year before her death
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Doreen Stock, 86, died childless in 2021 and left her entire estate to her nephew, Simon Stock (envisioned), and his wife Catherine
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Without any children of her own, Ms Stock's very first will, made in 1986, left her estate to Mr Chiswick, child of her niece Patricia Chiswick and [husband Brent](https://sherwoodhomesomaha.com).
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The estate mainly contains the Mottingham home, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000.
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The court heard Ms Stock had had a good relationship with the Chiswicks, who helped her with her shopping and visited her [regularly](https://www.villabooking.ru).
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She even made an enduring power of lawyer in their favour, however before she died revoked the document and changed her will, leaving everything to a nephew on her hubby's side.
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Challenging the will, Mr Chiswick declares that his [great-aunt's](https://vision-constructors.com) dementia in her final years means there is major doubt whether she had the required capacity to make the modifications.
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And he said the fact there was no discussion with his side of the family about the brand-new will recommended 'something not right' about her change of mind.
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'Doreen and I had a really pleased relationship and she comprehended that leaving her estate to me would make a [massive difference](https://dngeislgeijx.homes) to my life,' he stated in his proof.
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For Simon and Catherine, barrister James McKean told the court that Ms Stock had likewise been close to Simon, who was 'the nearest thing to a boy she had,' adding to his school fees as a kid.
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And although she previously had a close relationship with Mr Chiswick's moms and dads, that was messed up when they recommended she go into a care home in 2019.
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Patricia had then arranged for a 'capacity assessment' for her aunt, which the lawyer stated led to Ms Stock fearing her [self-reliance](https://atflat.ge) was being threatened and ultimately altering her will.
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The estate primarily contains the Mottingham house, which is valued online at about ₤ 400,000
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The court heard there had actually been 'building animosity' with the way her power of attorney was being administered, which 'lastly boiled over in the summer of 2019 when the Chiswicks made an ill-judged - though maybe well-intentioned - tip to Doreen that she invest a duration in residential care.
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'Doreen was, by all accounts, jealously independent. It is little marvel that she discovered the proposal to be disconcerting and [offending](https://www.rumahq.id).
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'No doubt Doreen was fretted about the prospect of entering into a home, then was asked to go through the capability assessment, and put 2 and 2 together.'
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Within weeks of the assessment, which resulted in a [report stating](https://kate.com.qa) she 'did not have capability,' she had begun actions to [withdraw](https://inpattaya.net) the power of lawyer and make a new will in Simon and Catherine's favour, he told the judge.
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Quizzing Patricia Chiswick in the witness box, he included: 'Doreen loved her home and it had actually been her and Samuel's home before his death. There was a deep psychological connection to that residential or commercial property.
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'Saying to Doreen that she should leave that residential or commercial property and invest some time in a care home was offending to her, wasn't it?
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'From Doreen's perspective, this must have looked a genuine risk to her independence.'
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But Patricia rejected distressing the pensioner, insisting that the plan was only ever for a short break in a care home while she and her partner went on vacation.
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'It was simply an idea due to the fact that we don't normally disappear for three weeks at a time, and I think she had actually been rather unhealthy and her health was degrading in general,' she said.
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'I was worried about leaving her and I thought it would be rather good if she could go somewhere where she could be cared for while we were away.
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'It was absolutely stressed out that it was for 3 weeks. There was no recommendation she was going to remain there indefinitely.'
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The Chiswicks did not go to Ms Stock once again in between the [capacity evaluation](https://cyppro.com) in 2019 and her death in May 2021.
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For Patricia's boy Mr Chiswick, who is the complaintant in the event, barrister Simon Lane stated that, at the time she made the new will, she was 'vulnerable and was behaving out of character.'
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The 2019 assessment performed after the tip of a care home move had led to a professional's finding that she 'did not have capacity,' he stated.
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But Mr McKean said the evaluation was lacking, with Ms Stock responding to with 'prickly hostility' when she was quizzed about things that made no sense to her, such as a fire which never really occurred.
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Other evaluations around the same time had actually resulted in findings that she did have capability, although she was suffering with 'mild' dementia,' he stated.
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'Doreen may have had some memory issues, however capability and memory are different beasts,' he stated.
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'The court will struggle to find any proof of impaired cognition or thinking. On the contrary, [Doreen's](https://casaduartelagos.com) behaviour, values and thinking were constant and possible at all times.'
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He said there was reason for her to decide to alter her will, the last being made more than thirty years formerly, and that by then Mr Chiswick - living and dealing with the opposite of the Atlantic - would have been 'far from her mind as a beneficiary.'
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He had not seen her once again or even spoken on the phone after relocating to the US, while many of the proof of their relationship originated from when he was a kid.
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On the other hand, Mr Stock and his better half had been able to visit her regularly, living not far from her in Eltham, south London, he stated.
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'The court can be shocked neither by the making of the disputed will, nor by [Doreen's option](https://proflexuae.com) of beneficiaries,' he added.
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The judge is expected to give her judgment on the case at a later date.
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