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- Jill Langley successfully took her father's new wife to court after she was left out of his will. Jill’s father Robert - who died aged 94 - had updated his will just two months before his passing, leaving everything he owned to his wife of 11 months, Chelsea. The judge ruled that the will was invalid and that his wife had exerted ‘undue influence’ and ‘control’ over Robert and his finances, including being the ‘guiding hand’ behind his last will. Jill shares her story alongside her solicitor Caoimhe Turner to explain why this is a landmark case.
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This is justice. She was entitled to her inheritance. I am pleased that she won the case and that the Judge recognised the truth.
agreed. Happen to me but I made sure my brother and I got it all plus the Real Estate
No she wasn’t. She was not taking care of the old man when he was old and lonely
That father appeared to be a very ungrateful and obstinate man.
Not treating his ailing first wife truly indicates how mean spirited and selfish he was.
Finally, a Judge is smart and have common sense. When a person gets that old, a medical team must certify a person has sound mind before a new will can be created. The 11 month “new wife” may hasted his demise as soon a new will was created.
If the new wife truly loved him, and married him just for love, she wont be upset about not getting the money. You don't deserve a million just for being married for a few months.
Exactly
What about her security??
@@darrenmackenzie1892 I don't know. Maybe she should have got a job and a pension like everyone else 🤷♀️
@@darrenmackenzie1892 she suddenly needed security after being with someone for a short time. She’s not a child bride.
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This Happens so Often, More Solicitors and Judges need to take note!
She deserved the inheritance. Im pleased she won the case
But this does prove unfortunately that that you have to mention family un your will otherwise they could overrule it
No, I think this is a disgrace dont you think there was a reason why her father felt the need to leave her out of his will maybe no one knows what happened behind the screens this lady isn't a victim as she was make herself out to be
@@Maz-zb9uf the same logic could be used against what you’ve just said as well. I don’t think she was making herself out to be a victim, I think she was talking about her father being a victim. The woman he married was nearly/basically 4 decades younger than him, married him a year before he died and when he wrote his new will 2 months before his death made multiple errors about his own life and couldn’t even remember where he actually was from showing that he was not fit mentally and his mind wasn’t functioning correctly. I *highly* doubt if you found yourself in the same situation with your own father you wouldn’t have a problem with it and contest it.
@@Hazy18 EVERYTHING YOU SAID CAN APPLY TO ANYONE IN THE WORLD…
SHOOT I BARELY KNOW WHERE I AM AT SOMETIMES…. HE LEFT HER OUT FOR A REASON AND IT WILL COME TO LIGHT. THE WIFE AGE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT……
PEOPLE ACT LIKE YOUNGER PEOPLE CANT FALL IN LOVE WITH OLDER PEOPLE…. IT CAN AND DOES HAPPENED EVERY DAY.
AMEN ❤thank you father in Jesus mighty name bless her LORD ❤️
So glad she won the case. We all know why a 39 year-old woman would marry a 90-year-old, don't we?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
39 years his junior so about 51yo. But still it raises eyebrows.
❤❤❤😂😂😂
Dad was unfair to her from the start. She should have been paid a decent wage from the start.
She did say the woman was controlling her Father. Maybe not all his fault
@@abbieroseholden4174 "The woman" was not around when the business was a start up nor through the years of the business' growth, expansion and extension. Listen to what the daughter said abut her dad paying her very little over many years. Also, was "the woman" responsible for him being too stingy to pay for proper healthcare for his wife?
Many family businesses like this unfortunately!
The new wife was a gold digger !
Poetic justice was served
Yes, but old daughter did not take care of her old father, so why should she get inheritance? She said herself they were estranged. U know what it means? If she were taking care of her dad i would be for her, but she wasnt
@@bambinaforever1402I agree that she was estranged and hadn't seen her father for at least a year and she would have found out if she had visited him. Her dad was right to try to keep his wife at home if he loves her. Who would so nonchalantly dump their mother in a care home if they have money to pay for her to be at home? However, she earned him at least part of the million pounds. The new wide hadn't invested any part of herself in that business so, I'd say she's entitled to something but not so much. Anyway, I was shocked when she said so easily that she received a letter telling her about the wedding a year afterwards. She obviously wasn't that worried for her elderly father's wellbeing.
Obviously your father also had dementia. So glad you were able to overturn the will, the new wife took advantage of him.
It's clear the motivation was not marriage but his money.
I had that problem. My grandmother left a life estate to a gold digger who married my father, (she didn't know she did this.. ) and said women also robbed my grandmother of all her jewelry. My grandmother's will was done in the 70s but all of a sudden a two day old will pops up... you get the drift. I was defrauded of everything.
Goodness, a judge with a brain and a heart as well.
This lady’s mother would have been due her husbands money if she’d have lived, she contributed to his fortune, the mother would have wanted her daughter to be provided for, the new wife was not part of the process, sounds like she was gold digger. Glad she won the case, although the cost was probably high.
The person who contests a Will and is successful, does not pay a penny in fees.
The daughter had to walk away I totally agree with her, the same thing happened to me I was broken hearted when my father died and left all to a woman he lived with for two WEEKS total. I nursed him through cancer because he wouldn’t go into a hospice, she went away to console herself. I walked away after the funeral and looked after his 100 year old mother till she died. The wife went home to her home country with his life savings, proceeds of house sale the lot. Never to be heard of again. (She even took his ashes) !!!!!
I hear you. i was defrauded of everything. Be wary of accountant-attorneys in Lexington, Massachusetts everyone.
How dreadful! I am so sorry for you, you sound like a good person who deserved better.
Soo Sorry! 🙏🏻
So sorry that this happened to you. The woman in question will get her Karma as sure as you will get good Karma for all that you have done for everyone.
In Canada, a law prevented caregivers from any financial gain from the client's will. This case was based on a short marriage, but the ill intent is the same.
The fact that his assets were not only left to the new wife but also to her sons is a huge red flag when he had a daughter and other family who helped him over the years.
After seeing the photo of the 'new wife', nothing surprises me! I won't write the truth as I'll be flagged...pffff
Yep its a typical sight
We get your drift and I agree 100%
@@IadoreyouMaxxythey do this in Australia all the time
I totally agree.
0:16 Chelsea a South East Asian woman. 🇹🇭🇵🇭🇻🇳🇱🇦🇰🇭
Making it easier for you karen
Congrats on overturning that will. I am happy for you. You deserve you parents fortune, especially considering how short this new wife had been with him❤😊
If at all he should have shared his fortune not give to just one person.
Especially when he had named you a sole beneficiary some years earlier.
Usually I would say that contesting the will is wrong and you should respect that persons wishes whos passed away. However on this one I am on her side she deserves that inheritence not some woman he just met
I am so glad the truth did win as this is not always the case. Thank God for that High Court judge who had wisdom.
So good that something went right in our court system for once! Well done on your win, well earned family money going to Jill 💕
It's clear dad was abused by the wife
It's justice
Agreed, it’s definitely justice! Watching Jill’s face when the statement was read out from the wife was brilliant, the amount of times we see the wrong person coming out on top from some kind of loop hole in the courts is painful, so this was good to see 🙌🏼😄 I hope the wife didn’t get a single penny, not even a plate or a picture and just has her ‘good memories’ to live on 👊🏼
I'm pleased she's won! The wife should just be happy that she left with what she put into the marriage, nothing!
Dealing with elderly relatives is very difficult
I am glad she got the inheritance that she deserved. Also congratulations to the Judge who carried out this justice.
The truth doesn’t always win. A lot of people have learned that to their detriment.
It's scary that not only do we have online scammers but *real life scammers* who target the elderly/vulnerable to marry and take their money :( If only there was a law in place to prevent this scam from happening. I'm she fought back and won the case.
Good for her for fighting the will so glad she won it’s unbelievable what people will do for money just pure greed this needs to be addressed as this is happening far to offer people are meeting very valuable elderly people and married them and they automatically entitled to the the assets as a married person just not right at all shocking !
It’s always the way that those closest are the ones affected most. My mother was exactly the same, it was very sad making accusations etc. fortunately for us she got past this stage and was her sweet self by the time she died.
God Bless The Judge 🙌 🙌 🙌
For once something went thr right way in our otherwise corrupt court system. Really i am very happy for this lady and i thank the judge whom decided this.
My mums gone though this, my mum was only child and he left all to his evil wife
I completely agree with the fact the daughter got the money but why do people always expect to get money when their parents die?
This is sad. Why should a woman who's only known him for a few years get the family inheritance. My own sister cohersed family into changing the will. It's heartbreaking and tears family's apart
One should NEVER expect it. If you get it…. It is a blessing.
Why do parents expect their children to help them in business and when they become elderly? Family is family. Inheritance is inheritance. This woman worked hard for her mother and father's benefit and in the end couldn't even get her Dad to spend some money on his wife, her mother's, comfort and care at the end of her life. The daughter deserves it.
@@Fratiani Exactly, but in this case, the fair recipient for such blessing is the daughter.
@@Fratianithe perfect answer
Thank goodness true heir and not some goldigger got the money.
Not much point showing blurry pictures. My brother stole our father's home by forging his Will. He also got our mother to write lies about me falsely accusing me of my brother's crimes. There is very little real Justice in this country.
Yeah, when it family its seen as a civil matter even though its a real crime, that's our legal system for you, it's soft
The point is did they know the will was forged?
Hey, when aired on TV the photos aren’t blurry, they blur them when they upload clips to CZcams for copyright reasons. They have permission/the copyright holders permission to show on the programme at that time on that station. If a show then decides to upload to another media site such as this one, they blur the photos. It is very annoying though as I don’t watch regular tv nowadays lol. Hope this helps. 😊
They show a proper pic later in the video.
@@ThatChrisPrycethanks for explaining
This is very common now, people who benefitted from their parents death then not passing on that wealth to their own children as well as becoming entangled in predatory relationships as they lose their cognitive ability. This is low hanging fruit for people tempted by financial gain and I know more than one adult child with a parent being preyed upon by a “love interest”. There is a reason people throughout human history pass on what assets they have to help their family survive and hopefully thrive. This generation now approaching their 80s and above has broken this unspoken rule and yet lived with some of the greatest wealth opportunities seen in the past century. As this generation needs significant help in dementia care it is even more important courts can protect family who are nearly always the only ones doing the care work and upholding basic protections for their loved one.
Indeed, and that is one reason why on the continent you cannot completely disinherit your children. UK and US inheritance law is not fit for purpose.
I’ve got one better. My father adopted me out but kept his adopted child (not biological and older than me). Left his 55 million dollar property to him who died a year later and left it to his buddy. My family and I got nothing.
Wow!!!!
This happens so often, thank goodness for the outcome in favour for his devoted daughter. The reason for her father's success was mainly due to his daughter & her business knowledge. His second wife obviously was just after his wealth.
Dementia for sure. False memory; I was accused of things I couldn't have done, crazy accusations against others, downright paranoia. It's an awful thing to have to deal with in others.
Anosognia is a symptom of dementia. Lack of understanding and capacity is also common. I am a mental health nurse and also supported both my parents through this. The key thing is to secure power of attorney early on when the relative is fully aware of their decisions. POA does not mean that the person cannot go carrying on living with maximum independence for as long as is feasible..
These cases are more frequent than people think and are often decided in favor of the right party. There are alot of great judges and attorneys who work in this aspect of the law. (says the probate paralegal, in my humble opinion).
A nursing home is the best place, when folks can’t take care of themselves. She is a smart lady.
This happened with my grandmother two weeks before dying. Emotionally manipulated by the youngest adult daughter. In Australia there seems very little come back around manipulated emotions, as harder to measure especially if there is a small amount left in the will for the other while another receives a million dollar property. Unfortunately many don't hv the income to fight something like this.
You will need to pay a court fee to start your case. Typically this will be based on the value of your claim. The fee payable upon issue of proceedings is 5% of the amount for claims worth between £10,000 and £200,000, or £10,000 for claims worth more than £200,000.
New wife vs daughter. Daughter always wins.
Smh
@@1fan689are you the new wife ? 😂
@@HoneyHoops-ig9ws
Lol 😂 😂😂
Not always
@@rosahacketts1668 it would have gone to the biological mother anyways
KEE-VA! The woman must be too polite to correct them.
You deserve it 👏
there are no capacity assessments when vulnerable elderly ate taken to get married.......all they have to say is 'yes'. Sadlyva common problem and not all families are told their elderly relative is married until after their death.
*39year old Asian woman marries a 90year old? Give me a break*
Nobody is owed anything. It’s not your money until someone decides to leave it to you.
Kids aren’t owed anything.
If the new wife fored him to change his will that’s another matter.
If my mum chooses not to leave me any money then that’s up to her. It’s HER money. I am not entitled to anything unless she wants me to have it. It’s HERS, until she is gone, and then it’s whomever she wants it to be.
the new wife forced him indeed
All true. But dementia is a disease, & her father sounded like a nice man until he got ill with symptoms. The Will wasn’t changed until after the marriage (there are devious narcissistic people do marry for the inheritance). Were I to marry a man that age with one child, I’d insist she got the inheritance because she’d earned it. Nothing about it being her due of corse, just that it would be right: she had loved him for 60+yrs & I’d only loved him for one...
It’s quite simple really.
I totally agree. The right thing for the new wife to do would be at the very least split it with his daughter or give it all to her.
They fell out before the new wife came along though.
But were I the wife I would absolutely split it.
My mother tries to threaten my sister all the time with cutting her off. But I always tell her whatever she gives to me I will split with my sister if she cuts her off. Because it’s not worth falling out with your family over something is a silly as money you aren’t owed.
Sorry, this woman married to gain a profit
This daughter contributed greatly to her father’s accumulation of his wealth so is definitely deserving
Objectionafiably defiant and contrary is something that presents with some people who have dementia and the executive functioning area can deteriorate as well. There can be personality changes and they resist loved ones assisting them away from their faulty decisions. This makes them vulnerable to financial exploitation by people. They can disinherit their family and do very reckless financial moves. It is very good to see that there are judges and courts that understand this.
I truly believe he will rest easier in knowing his lifetime’s work was not ‘lost’ due to his impaired thinking during those last months of his life. His daughter, always having been his beneficiary, remained so. As it should be.
Great precedent
That new wife was a gold digger who thought she was smart...
Good on Jill!!
A will is not valid if it has been drawn up when the person lacks mental capacity
Her dad fell out with her when she wanted her mum to go in a home and he wanted her to stay at home so no surprise he didn't contact her about the new marriage. Also why didn't the daughter ask for more wages when she worked for her dad? She keeps emphasising how hard she worked for him.
Because it's the truth. She worked hard and help her dad. The gold digger did nothing. Are you blind or what?
Sounds a little suspicious. Not too sure. Who works for £30 pw in a successful business ?
Yeah, you did everything for love!! Lol 😂 🤣 was never your money in the first place!!!!
I totally understand that this can happen as was the case with my husband's mother who was 100% influenced by other family members at the age of 84. Some countries protect the children by not allowing them to be completely written out and in this day and age of remarriages this is not a bad idea! Glad she won!! The new wife should have made an arrangement with the daughter and made it fair, but greed got the better of her, I'm glad she lost it all!!!
In my opinion, its up to the person who they leave anything to, but it must be legal.
Wakey wakey Cat, are you there?
Lol 😂 😂😂
She is trying to look interested 😂
@@marylynch951shes not succeeding. - not abnormal
One look at the new wifes photo explained everything 🤑
He loved his first wife so I can understand why he wanted to care for his wife at home. I get it.
The daughter said that he refused to spend his money on Care Home fees, that’s the real reason he kept his wife at home. The fact he didn’t pay his daughter decent wages for all her hard work in building up his business shows that when it came to money, he had a mean streak. I know men like this, relying on their daughters love to get them to do everything so they don’t have to pay other people to do the work.
But sometimes we need to admit we can't cope with doing that. A friend of mine is quite aged but she cares for her mother with Dementia. She has cut many of us off because we told her that she is making herself ill looking after her mother and that her mother would receive more appropriate care in a Nursing home. Their house is an absolute tip, the mother often looks disheveled. The garden is so overgrown you can barely get to the front door. Neither of them eat well. It is so sad.
@@verenamaharajah6082 Dad was a tightwad . A loving person would have paid his daughter fairly and covered his wife's medical needs.
Glad for her
I think this happens more than any of us are aware where a person with dubious intentions comes into someone's life knowing how fragile a person is and takes total advantage, it would have been wrong for the wife's son to benefit from some of the money and not the biological daughter and other family members who seem to have been in his life, something definietly didn't add up here.
You know you're angry when you get yourself on national TV to gripe about money you feel entitled to 😂
She literally was entitled to it....
@@MsPinkwolf According to her story the business empire wouldn't have left it's humble roots as a butchers if not for her entrepreneurial genius.
@@adamweisshaup And...?
@@MsPinkwolf I mean if you can't detect heavy sarcasm I don't know what to tell you.
Its amazing to me that your brain can ignore the fact that the new wife, 4 decades younger than him, married him less that a year before he died and when he wrote his new will leaving her everything, 2 months before his death, made multiple mistakes about his own life - not even knowing where he was from - meaning his mind clearly was not functioning properly and he couldn’t even recollect things properly. I *highly* doubt that if you found yourself in the exact same position with your own father/mother you wouldn’t do the exact same thing and not even for the money but because someone has taken advantage of your parent who was vulnerable.
Cat made a huge error when she said it was her husband when it was her father haha
Im sure her mother would have turned in her grave if the daughter didn’t get the house.
I have worked in Aged Care for Many Many Years and the Claws come out, family Members are far for innocent when it comes to $$$$$, I just got a Strange feeling on this one not buying the Daughters story AT ALL and the Lawyer is still wet behind the ears....
I think she shouldn't have been cut out of the will, however, I don't believe she is being completely truthful.
Yes I'm with you on that! also it's quite a common tactic for families to say the person in question has dementia, even though they haven't had a professional diagnosis.
They’re out there!
Ready to grab what they can
Poor lady. Glad that the judge made the sensible decision. Horrific behaviour from the gold digger.
No one is "entitled" to anyone else's money in my option, family or not
disagree
Certainly, this is true. However, this woman contributed to her father's business successes. The new wife swooped in and took advantage.
A gold digger is I guess 😂😂
Here for the comments 👀
Well done you
Congratulations for one the good guys won !
Well maybe if he paid her a decent wage all the years she was working for him he might not have so much to leave behind…on principle I agree with you that children are not entitled to an inheritance but think this woman deserves it
Happy for her
What is the name of the firm? I didn’t catch it. Definitely want them backing my corner
AMEN the truth always wins ❤
Glad she won 👌
Neither of the presenters know how to pronounce Irish names it seems 😅
At long last Finally this has been. Recognized So glad the high court Juge made the 👋👋 right decisions And always check on second wills changed ..
"The truth always wins."
No, it does not. She got lucky.
How many millions of children are disinherited by their father's second wife? It's surprising there isn't a worldwide organisation dedicated to the single task of stopping that.
Winnie Wallace....Spend that money as fast as you can Jill or somebody else might get their hands on it. Don't worry that you didn't see him in the later part of his life, and didn't even know he had married, he was confused and not in the best of health , so best to leave him to get on with what time he had left. I can't think for the life of me why he'd change his will.
This is the culture of some ladies to involve themselves with wealthy elderly men for the benefits. It is never about love but £€¥$😢. It is so sad though.
Ouch
Could they have not researched the pronounciation of the solicitors name? It’s pronounced kweeva I think 😩
The lawyer looks quite young.
Yeah right girl, get that money 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm just not sure ...i just think it's up to him who can has it ..and especially if you hadn't seen him in years..i would never go on TV to talk about it ...i would be upset but never fight it.
Ditto agreed. She was babbling to defend or justify herself and family that seem to have disowned their father at the end of the father’s life. I hope the lady and son who were there at the end years got something because that would be really sad to be homeless after caring for him during the most difficult time.
you say that now, until this happens to you with some new gold digger wife taking all the money you should've gotten.
@@Arielle62129 if it comes as a surprise to you then you were not close to the parent. If you don’t know the wife or even married you clearly weren’t close at the end of his life. Should have been SPLIT - just my opinion- rewarding bad behaviour works on both sides of this break up due to death - split better than distant daughter takes it all. Perhaps two gold diggers here !
@@Arielle62129 I'm not a money grabber and I certainly would not go on telly to justify my reasons .If I had not seen my dad or made no effort to then I would have guilt about that
Reading between the lines: if the daughter won her case due to a contested Will based on Non-Compus Mentis, Undue Influence and I suspect Promissory Estoppel had some bearing on the amount she got, that also suggests that the daughter contested due to being 'owed' money she had failed to get in life - as asserted in this video - and because her father was not thinking right anymore (non-compos) but also - and most critically - that his new wife had asserted some sort of threat against her husband that she would not take care of him unless he left her his money. Undue influence always involves negative not positive influence - some sort of threat or fear of something they might lose 'unless they.....', it is not about persuasion.
Seems like a mean spirited old man whose new wife was exploitative of him and just as nasty to him as he had been to his daughter over how he had badly treated his first wife.
cat said 'twenny twenny and the guest corrected her saying twenty twenty
Glad she won her case. Losing a parent is hard enough as it is... thoughts and prayers with her and the family
Really?? She disowned him at the time needed most and swooped in after being notified he died !!
I'm glad the lady won but surely all the work she did for her dad should have shown in her being paid well or in owning a part of the business. Neither had business heads.
Hilarious. We all know WHY the new wife married him.
New wife 😡.
Justice served for once.
Unfortunately what sort of old bloke marries a young woman and believe he loves her 😂😂😂of course she was up to no good
especially one he probably imported????
10:12 😂 Halloween every day !
While I'm glad she got the will overturned, the histrionics about what she did, and why she deserves it was way over the top.
Key omi😂 its Caoimhe I am sure Irish name
Seems she is really laying it on thick .. still think it is correct she got the money … I would do the same minus the tv appearance
The truth doesn't always win, unfortunately.
Cash is king !