Appeals Panel Finds Unclean Hands Doctrine Bars Woman From Estate Benefit

(June 3, 2019, 11:26 AM EDT) -- ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The doctrine of unclean hands bars a deceased man’s third wife from obtaining a share of his estate because their marriage was procured as a result of undue influence, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled May 29 in affirming a lower court panel’s decision (In the Matter of Robert H. Watkins Jr., No. 2171, September Term, 2017, Md. Spec. App., 2019 Md.  LEXIS 269)....

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