Caranci v. Howard

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• establishing that in order to challenge a will's validity, the plaintiff must establish undue influence by the preponderance of the evidence
• the testator was an elderly woman who bequeathed her entire estate to a friend she had met in her final years
• “Because the perpetrator of such covert coercion generally applies the forbidden pressure in secret, one seeking to set aside such a will is often unable to produce direct evidence of the undue influence to the factfinder but rather must rely on circumstantial evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).