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Times
22-05-2025
- Business
- Times
At last, a proposal to overhaul 188-year-old wills legislation
Death and taxes may be the two certainties in human existence — but legal strife is a subcategory that is rapidly attaching itself to the former. Battles over wills and inheritance are rolling before the courts in growing numbers as a boom in property prices over the past 30 years has significantly increased the value of previously modest estates. Within the past few months alone, this newspaper has reported on a court row between an alternative therapist who specialised in energy wavelength treatments and her sisters over their inheritance and two emotional support dogs, and another between an electrician and his sister over a £700,000 estate where a video showed the sister 'propelling' their mother's hand to sign a deathbed will. The wealthy
Times
19-05-2025
- Health
- Times
I need mother's home — and so do my support dogs, woman tells sisters
An alternative therapist who specialised in energy wavelength treatments is locked in a court battle with her sisters over their inheritance and two emotional support dogs. Agnes Duggan, the mother, died nearly seven years ago, aged 78, and bequeathed her £420,000 home to her three daughters: Sharon, Ann and Brenda Duggan. The youngest sibling, Sharon, 49, had lived with her mother, caring for her in the last years of her life. However, she is now attempting to block her two older sisters from their share of the estate, claiming that she needs to stay in the house for life with her therapeutic pets because she is too 'noise sensitive' to live in a flat. The former NHS medical secretary is suing Brenda, a 55-year-old alternative
