Matter of Estate of Kalouse

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• finding that even if a scrivener’s testimony showed an intent different from that found in the will, “the heirs’ problem is the principle against varying wills by extrinsic evidence.”
• upholding will’s language creating a class gift despite scrivener’s testimony that testator intended to make individual gifts
• “[E]xtrinsic evidence is not admissible to vary, contradict or add to the terms of the will, or to show a different intention on the part of the testator from that disclosed by the language of the will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).