Businesswoman Caroline Barrett, 28, spent that time co-habiting with
her boyfriend before they married and has now lost her share of her
Catholic grandmother’s fortune after a High Court dispute with her aunt
and two uncles.
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Mrs Barrett had stood to inherit part of Bridget Murray’s
estate when she died aged 87 in July 2010 under the terms of the
matriarch’s last will, which was drawn up just months before she died.
But lawyers for Mrs Murray’s two sons, David and John Murray,
and her daughter, Catherine Turk, have now persuaded a judge to correct
their mother’s will so that her granddaughter is ‘struck out’.
They argued Mrs Murray had vowed she would never include Mrs
Barrett, of Basingstoke, Hampshire, in her will after she co-habited
before getting married and that the clause in the will bequeathing her a
share had been a mistake.
Judge Robert Miles QC ruled that the pensioner had indeed not
intended Mrs Barrett, or her brother David Robertson, to benefit from
her will and ordered that it be rectified so they both were removed as
beneficiaries.
Judge Miles added: ‘It was a matter for Mrs Murray how she
divided her estate even if, on one view, it might not have been
particularly fair, or even capricious.’
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