Court Cases

🇺🇸 USA – Lasting Power of Attorney Case: Matter of Ferrara (New York Court of Appeals, 2007)

An attorney-in-fact (agent) under a Durable Power of Attorney transferred the principal’s assets to himself and family members. The principal later challenged the transfers, claiming breach of fiduciary duty....

🇬🇭 Ghana Supreme Court – Disputed Deed of Gift Case: Adjei & Others v. Osei & Others (2021)

A father executed a Deed of Gift transferring land to his children. After his death, extended family members contested the gift, claiming it was invalid and that the land belonged...

🇬🇧 UK Supreme Court – Disputed Will Case: Ilott v The Blue Cross & Others (2017)

Heather Ilott, estranged from her mother for decades, was left out of her mother’s Will. The mother left her £486,000 estate to animal charities. Ilott challenged the Will under the...

🇨🇦 Power of Attorney in Canada — Drewniak v. Smith (2024)

A donor granted a general Power of Attorney (POA) to one child, then later appointed another child in a second POA. The case examined whether the donor had the required...

🇬🇭 Deed of Gift in Ghana — Nyarko vs Tetteh (2019)

In this case, a testator purportedly gifted part of land (shops and rooms) to one defendant (his daughter) via a Deed of Gift executed in 1999. Another defendant (her brother)...

🇬🇧 Will Dispute in the UK — Parsonage Estate Case (2019)

A woman (Beryl Parsonage) made two successive Wills. The first Will mostly benefited one child. The second Will attempted to divide her estate equally among her four children. After her...