Two New York siblings have put forward a claim that their stepmother filed a fraudulent will that disinherited them of a portion of their father’s estate. Jennifer and Robert Shafer have asked a Manhattan judge to put aside patient-client privilege so that they can get a psychiatrist who provided marriage counseling to their father and stepmother to hand over intimate details about the relationship. The siblings are hoping to prove that their father’s December 2010 will that cut them out and gave everything to their stepmother and her child from a previous marriage was a fraudulent. If the 2010 will is declared invalid then that would revive an earlier 2009 will that leaves the siblings half of the estate.
See Julia Marsh, Siblings claim stepmom filed fake will to get $10M inheritance, The New York Post, August 28, 2015.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.
