It often happens that someone is disinherited due to a malicious whispering campaign by a family member who engages in lies or falsehoods designed to alienate the affections of an elderly person, the aim being to obtain a larger stake of an inheritance for the perpetrator.  Fortunately, Courts have developed legal rules designed, when certain factors can be established, to invalidate testamentary documents that are procured under such circumstances.   If the testator is elderly, ill, or in a feeble state and the person who is doing the talking holds a position of trust, such as a family member, and the whispering campaign involves lies or falsehoods, the disinheritance can be set aside.

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