Pettit v Waters-Pettit

• 1. Wills
  2. › Proof in solemn form
  3. › Testamentary capacity
  4. › Banks v Goodfellow test
  5. › Whether testator had testamentary capacity when suffering delirium, hypoxia and opioid medication in terminal illness
  6. › Wills Act 1970 (WA), s 8
• 1. Wills
  2. › Proof in solemn form
  3. › Knowledge and approval
  4. › Whether testator knew and approved contents of will executed during periods of fluctuating cognition, sedation and hallucinations
• 1. Wills
  2. › Proof in solemn form
  3. › Presumptions
  4. › Duly executed will rational on its face presumed to be will of person of competent understanding
  5. › Suspicious circumstances displacing presumption
  6. › Radical departure from long-adhered-to testamentary dispositions

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