Possible Undue Influence In Creating A Codicil Leads To Reversal In Mississippi

(May 1, 2019, 2:31 PM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court on April 25 reversed appellate court and chancery court decisions in a will dispute — holding that a chancellor erred by failing to find that a presumption of undue influence had arisen in the creation of a codicil and by stating the wrong burden of proof — and remanded the case for further fact finding by the chancellor (Marquan D. Stover v. Elaine G. Davis, Executrix of the Estate of Tamora G. Robinson, No. 2016-CT-01605-SCT, Miss. Sup., 2019 Miss. LEXIS 176)....

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