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Conflicting wills leads to charge of undue influence

Posted on Jun 08, 2009

Cape Cod artist Mary Kass left two wills created years apart.  The conflict in the terms of the wills lead to beneficiaries of the first will claiming undue influence in the creation of the second will. 

Ms. Kass accumulated tens of millions of dollars worth of art.  She originally left a substantial portion of her estate to her niece and nephew through her will.  A later will left most of her estate to the National Gallery of Art and put her caregiver in charge of her estate along with a major brokerage house.  Her niece and nephew claim the second will was the product of the caregiver's undue influence.  No doubt the caregiver is in a position to earn large fees helping to probate this will.

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