[tossandthrow]

It is super difficult to ask deceased people what they actually wanted.

In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will.

It might be there there is a brother somewhere that feels hurt. But we really don't know if the deceased one really wished that his early crush should have the money.

What we can do, however, is to make sure we update our wills.

[bnegreve]

> In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will.

We trust judges when they decide to send people to prison for decades, so I don't see why we shouldn't trust them if they decide that this will is probably a mistake.

[madebylaw]

There wasn’t a will. The guy wrote his GFs name in some form in 1989 and probably never thought about it again.

[tossandthrow]

We don't trust judges. We trust the process they follow. A judge is not a God, why we have a hierarchy to redo judgments (lift a decision to a higher court).

Also, IMHO judging a person for something they did not do is amongst the worst things that can happen in a society. This is also why there is a principle of rather letting 10 guilty people go free rather than convicting a single innocent person.

(i am speaking from a Scandinavian juris system)

[amanaplanacanal]

Judges rely on evidence when making decisions. Is there Any evidence that it is a mistake?

[bnegreve]

I don't know. If the case is not discussed in court, we will never know. This is why we should not blindly follow a will out of respect of the dead person, because there may be evidence this is just a mistake.

[Brian_K_White]

Yes. The time and other circumstances as described by the article.

That signature is only one piece of evidence, and it doesn't exist in a vacuum, it has a context.