We are often asked by prospective clients who feel they have been disinherited or unfairly dealt with in a spouse or parent’s will, if there is anything that can be done about it. Specifically, our clients often want to know if there is some way in which the terms of a will can be changed after a loved one passes away. Depending on the circumstances and your relationship to the will maker, the answer is generally yes. This can even be the case where the loved one has their own motives or reasons for disinheriting someone, like cultural reasons. In this post, we explore a recent case where a court’s variation of such a will resulted in an increase of roughly $1,200,000 going to each of the children who were largely cut out of the will.
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