What is the name of your state? NC
My husband and his two siblings have filed a caveat to his father's will on the grounds that the will was created by their step-mother and signed 3-4 years after he was diagnosed with alzheimer's. As I'm sure you can imagine, the will leaves everything to her and she is the executor.
Now that she's been served with the caveat, her attorney is telling ours that "she says she has another will that says the same thing." Our atty. is just saying lets wait and see what it says, and my husband forgot to ask this question so I wanted to pose it here for other opinions.
If someone probates one will and when that will is contested they produce a previous will, do the courts only look at the will that was submitted to probate or can this other will be introduced?
Do they just keep going back to the previous will, then the previous will, then the previous will? When would it be deemed that he died intestate?
Thanks!
My husband and his two siblings have filed a caveat to his father's will on the grounds that the will was created by their step-mother and signed 3-4 years after he was diagnosed with alzheimer's. As I'm sure you can imagine, the will leaves everything to her and she is the executor.
Now that she's been served with the caveat, her attorney is telling ours that "she says she has another will that says the same thing." Our atty. is just saying lets wait and see what it says, and my husband forgot to ask this question so I wanted to pose it here for other opinions.
If someone probates one will and when that will is contested they produce a previous will, do the courts only look at the will that was submitted to probate or can this other will be introduced?
Do they just keep going back to the previous will, then the previous will, then the previous will? When would it be deemed that he died intestate?
Thanks!