Jury Invalidates Deathbed Will in Multimillion-Dollar Estate Dispute
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A 72-year-old man wrongfully convinced his terminally ill second wife of 24 years to revise her will on her deathbed to favor him over an earlier version that favored her three children, a Dallas jury ruled Tuesday.
After an hour of deliberation, the six-person jury unanimously ruled that 68-year-old Jean Knight Baty lacked the proper mental capacity when she signed the revised will a day before her Jan. 26, 2014 death, and therefore the new will should be invalidated.
The deathbed will gave her husband, Donald Baty, control of the bulk of the couple’s assets and a multimillion-dollar estate. This new will was contrary to a 1992 will Ms. Baty signed that created a family trust with terms that more directly benefitted her three children and grandchildren from a previous marriage.
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