Where suspicious circumstances arise from a beneficiary's involvement in the preparation of a will, the suspicion may be dispelled by evidence that the testator gave independent instructions for the will, separately considered and rejected alternative dispositions including provision for excluded persons, and had the will read aloud in the beneficiary's absence before signing. The reading aloud of a simple will is not conclusive but is persuasive and entitled to significant weight where consistent with prior instructions and where the testator's attention had been drawn to the claims of excluded persons.
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