Estate of Beale

Is This An Unnatural Will?

Appellant begins with the assertion that the 1959 will is an unnatural one in that it disinherited Beale’s ten-year-old son. Then he states his proposition that “proponents of an unnatural will have burden to give a reasonable explanation for its unnatural provisions.” The learned trial court filed a written decision which demonstrated the meticulous study which the court gave to the will itself and to the evidence adduced in the several hearings, and the court concluded *552that the will was not “unnatural.” Thomas’ inheritance was reduced by the 1959 will to a…