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the biggest challenge in will and trust
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fraud
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cases is that most of the wrongful
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conduct
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occurred behind closed doors
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and you couple that with the fact that
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by the time we are called it’s often the
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case
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the elder whose will or trust it was is
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deceased
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so the best witness i would typically
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have available on a cases
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is deceased i don’t have them so i have
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to go back in time
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and recreate what happened through
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documentation
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and talking to a number of witnesses a
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number of people who were around that
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elder
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in the days leading up to this
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wrongful will this fraudulent will or
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trust
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amendment and so it requires a lot of
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time and a lot of labor
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to go back find who would be in the best
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position who
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are the pertinent witnesses because
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perhaps not surprisingly
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the other side is typically not very
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cooperative in
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keying us in and telling us who the
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important witnesses are
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who has knowledge about what the elder
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really wanted
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at the end of their life