Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Texas

Can I dispute a will if it was changed while my grandfather was mentally ill?
My Grandfather was with his domestic partner for 20 years. He never married her because of money issues and such. He created his will many years before his passing. He developed dementia and during that time, his domestic partner had him change his will without him being in his right state of mind. After he passed, she would not give our family ANY of his personal items, nor anything that he had specified in his original will. Before he became sick, he explained to my Aunt that she was the executor of the will and that her, my mother and their brother would split everything. After he passed, my family was never notified of his will and we were even denied entrance into his house, by his domestic partner, to get a few items to remember him by. His death was in 1999 and my family has given up on this, but I have not. My question is: Is there anything that can be done to prove that his will was changed and he was not aware of what he was doing? I feel that my mother and her siblings should be able to have the items in which their father intended to leave to each of them. And we're not talking about a lot of money here, it's simply the principal of the fact that she took EVERYTHING and none of it belonged to her.

Asked on 12/04/06, 10:45 pm

Peter Bradie Bradie, Bradie & Bradie

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Re: Can I dispute a will if it was changed while my grandfather was mentally ill?

You could have have challenged the validity of the will if you had proof that he was incompetent when he made it. But that right expired years ago.

Answered on 12/06/06, 6:39 pm

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