Ex husband changed his will when in a hospital during covid

My ex husband and l had a really good friendship after divorce , so much so he made a will leaving his bungalow etc to me , His friend ( a women ) he was leaving 15 thousand pounds .he had wrote this will freely , and gave it to my sister too look after for approx 20 yrs , however 18 months ago during Covid lock down , He was told his cancer was now terminal , and that he might have a week or so too live ? His women friend then asked my sister for his will ? She then got a local solicitor too see my ex husband and get him to draw up a new will leaving half of his money too her and her son daughter and grandchildren . I now find the new will gives me 20,ooo pounds , and my son who is 45 the rest of his monies after her family share is taken,  plus my sons inheritance will be tied up in a Trust fund ? I feel this women has been coercive by saying unless he changed his will she would not help him while he was now dying ? 

Do l have a valid claim too over throw this new will ! Made when he was emotionally blackmailed in hispital , where we could not visit him. Due to  Covid ? 

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  • The laws are pretty strict to make sure vulnerable people aren't in a position to be emotionally blackmailed into making changes to their estate. So the solicitor dealing with it would have had a strict code of ethics to follow.

    As others have said, maybe it was done of his own free will. Not many people think of wills until they're faced with such an awful prognosis as your ex husband. Maybe he just re evaluated the contents within. You as an ex wife will have little or no say in the matter. It will be his son that will have to deal with any contested part of the will.

    you as an ex will have no real power to claim anything unless you have a legal document stating some of his assets were paid by yourself. That's not always down to finances as I'm pretty sure, if say, he bought the house whilst with yourself, whilst you took a break from employment to bring up your kid/s, that is also taken into consideration. But yeah, it's all complicated as it's kinda null and void if you accepted a divorce settlement and got all your entitlements.

    This is all rather a simplistic explanation, and only a solicitor can give you the answers you truly seek.

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  • The laws are pretty strict to make sure vulnerable people aren't in a position to be emotionally blackmailed into making changes to their estate. So the solicitor dealing with it would have had a strict code of ethics to follow.

    As others have said, maybe it was done of his own free will. Not many people think of wills until they're faced with such an awful prognosis as your ex husband. Maybe he just re evaluated the contents within. You as an ex wife will have little or no say in the matter. It will be his son that will have to deal with any contested part of the will.

    you as an ex will have no real power to claim anything unless you have a legal document stating some of his assets were paid by yourself. That's not always down to finances as I'm pretty sure, if say, he bought the house whilst with yourself, whilst you took a break from employment to bring up your kid/s, that is also taken into consideration. But yeah, it's all complicated as it's kinda null and void if you accepted a divorce settlement and got all your entitlements.

    This is all rather a simplistic explanation, and only a solicitor can give you the answers you truly seek.

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