Moneycontrol.com-Can a WILL be ringfenced against any possible future litigation?
WILL is by far the most accepted and popular testamentary document, which enables distribution of assets and wealth of the deceased testator (the person making the WILL) to designated beneficiaries. Technically every WILL carries the risk of being challenged in a court of law.
WILLs stand to be challenged on the following common grounds: signature taken under coercion or undue influence or under duress to the relatively complex stand of being made under suspicious circumstances. Apart from these, witnesses being fictitious not knowing what they were witnessing and forged signatures or non-existent witnesses. All this happens due to ill-feeling by a few/some beneficiary(ies) of being cheated/deceived of inadequate bequeath in comparison to their peer beneficiaries.
