Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Texas

Re: alzheimers & wills

Requisites of testamentary capacity are that the testator have sufficient capacity to (i) understand the act he/she was doing; (ii) know the nature and character of his/her property; (iii) know the objects of his/her bounty; and (iv) understand the disposition he/she was making.

Altzheimers Disease sometimes offers windows of lucidity and a jury may be asked to find whether the testator met the above 4-point test.