Does the doctrine of suspicious circumstances apply when someone prepares a will?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sader v. Zembik Estate, 2008 SKQB 128 (CanLII):
The matter of suspicious circumstances was reviewed by Gunn J. in Burton v. Karain Estate, [1999] S.J. No. 292, where she held at para. 24 that the doctrine of suspicious circumstances applies whenever the person who prepares a will takes any benefit under it.
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