In re the Estate of Khazaneh

*516OPINION OF THE COURT

Kristin Booth Glen, S.

This case, with objectant’s contention that “mental competency and testamentary capacity are distinct concepts,” and his argument that an otherwise fully competent testator must also know the “extent or value of his estate,” presents an opportunity to revisit the law of testamentary capacity after a decade and a half of change in the way the law understands and evaluates competence and capacity.1

Facts and Procedural Posture

The testator, Abbas Khazaneh, was a wealthy Iranian businessperson who fled his homeland during the revolution of 1978, ultimately…