Top court gives wider leeway to deathbed wills

“South Korea’s Supreme Court has broadened the scope for recognizing deathbed wills written down by others, ruling that a person’s limited ability to communicate does not necessarily invalidate a will made outside standard forms such as handwritten, recorded or notarized wills. According to legal sources Monday, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling against a plaintiff who had been in a nearly four-year legal dispute with a bank over the validity of a will left by his maternal half-br

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