mental capacity
1: The shocking rise of financial abuse involving wills | January 18, 2018
A report by the Elder Abuse Prevention Unit, shows a 20 per cent increase in reported cases of financial abuse from 2014-15 to 2015-16. The report also found that more than three-quarters of perpetrators reported between 2015 and 2016 were related to the victims…
2: Grandpa’s ‘romance’ to Young Woman was Marriage Fraud, Court finds | February 5, 2015
In 2012 Justice Garry Foster was asked to declare a marriage between a dementia-affected grandfather and his lover and former cleaner void. In such a rare case, he had to consider whether the grandfather was mentally capable of understanding the effect and nature of marriage…
3: Spectre of dead spouse haunted second marriage, says annulment claim | June 3, 2013
A WOMAN has tried to have her marriage annulled because her husband was obsessed with his first wife and kept her ashes…