Can Siblings Contest a Will in BC?
Onyx Law Group · Vancouver, British Columbia
Estate disputes between siblings are often the most heated. Old rivalries can resurface after a parent dies, which makes these cases harder to settle.
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What happens when siblings end up on opposite sides of an estate? Those are often the most contested and heated pieces of litigation when siblings are fighting. Sometimes the sibling rivalries from decades ago never went away and resurfaced to an alarming way and so those are the ones that are more bitterly fought because all the stories of how mom loved you best come out and then force them to kind of behave in a way that is not conducive for a resolution of the matter by a settlement and then so they end up becoming quite heated.
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