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The NH Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ketteridge v. Martin Lord & Osman, P.A. strongly suggests that the Court will likely hold that an estate planning attorney does not owe a duty to intended beneficiaries of an estate plan to evaluate whether the client is being subjected to undue influence when the client makes a change to […]
It’s a situation that estate planning petitioners sometimes encounter: a relative of a recently deceased client requests a copy of the attorney’s file relating to the execution of the decedent’s will. Sometimes it’s the proponent of the will. Sometimes it’s a disappointed heir who has mounted (or is considering) a will contest. Maybe the file […]
