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During a will dispute, a video – featuring the elderly, emaciated decedent in a hospital gown – was provided by the “new” heirs to their lawyer. The video was meant to support their claim that the decedent had willingly and knowingly redone her will in their favor. However, they’d forgotten to erase their first take: it showed a confused and disoriented old woman who didn’t understand what she was being asked to do.

Not surprisingly, the “new” heirs’ lawyer advised them to drop their suit. If they hadn’t, it would have been transferred to the branch of civil law called Inheritance Controversy Litigation. Once the video’s inauthenticity had been revealed to the court, the scammers would have found themselves being prosecuted for using undue influence to perpetrate financial exploitation/abuse and (as they say in legalese) intentional interference with the true heirs’ expectation of inheritance.

via Cleveland Jewish News > News > Business.