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<div dir="ltr">Mark, take a look at these cases and see if still good law.</div>
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contestants of a Will who allege lack of testamentary capacity must establish such allegations by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence.
</span><span style="font-family:'Arial-ItalicMT';font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:26.00px;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none">In re Riley's Estate</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-weight:normal;font-size:26.00px;font-kerning:none">,
78 Wn.2d 623, 479 P.2d 1 (1970). </span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:26.0px Arial"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-weight:normal;font-size:16.00px;font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-weight:normal;font-size:26.00px;font-kerning:none">A
person is possessed of testamentary capacity if at the time they execute their Will, they have sufficient mind and memory to understand the transaction in which he or she is then engaged. A testator must comprehend generally the nature and extent of the property
that constitutes his or her estate that is being distributed in the Will and must recollect the objects of his or her bounty.
</span><span style="font-family:'Arial-ItalicMT';font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:26.00px;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none">In re Estate of Bottger</span><span style="font-family:'Arial-ItalicMT';font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:26.00px;font-kerning:none">,</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-weight:normal;font-size:26.00px;font-kerning:none">
14 Wn.2d 676, 685, 129 P.2d 518 (1942).</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#002060">Surviving spouse has wanted to change her Will since her husband's death but has not gotten around to it because she is still grieving the loss. She was just
recently diagnosed as having Alzheimer's dementia, affecting her cognition and memory.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#002060">Is a diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia, without more, conclusive evidence that she is incompetent to change her Will? Can anything be done to prove (and document)
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