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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6e4545094d4de96e0aa2abf029b434f0 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#362828;font-size:14px"><strong>Robert Grierson, 56, has been landed with a $253,000 [£200,000] bill after being accused of forging his late mother&#8217;s signature in a battle with his younger brother over a one and half million dollar inheritance </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd215acb5e4a7acf1177f9a1f4df308f wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#362828;font-size:14px"><strong>Their mother Elise Grierson previously had willed her estate in equal equal halves to her sons Robert and Duncan, before dramatically changing her will 16 days after their father&#8217;s death, she died weeks later </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e60aa68dd61c2658fa6e81646ac74919 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#362828;font-size:14px"><strong>On their mother&#8217;s demise, Robert Grierson claimed Elise had already signed a declaration of trust in 2013, handing him a half share of her $1.27 million, [£1 million], home in Sutton Coldfield, West Midland </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60980f76726457a983f57c89162013b4 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#362828;font-size:14px"><strong>Judge Joanne Wicks, ruled that both the gift of half the house and the will were invalid, observing that there was “compelling evidence” that Elise had not signed the trust document herself </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-daeba65e14c4d79eca3058dc37c7e351 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#362828;font-size:14px"><strong>The will was not properly witnessed either and was made at a time when Robert could not prove Elise was of sound mind, Judge said</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>UK tax and estate attorney Robert Grierson, [photo], has been told to pay $253,000 after being accused of forging his late mother&#8217;s signature in a legal battle with his younger brother Duncan Grierson over a family estate worth over $1.52million</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A UK attorney accused of fraudulently depriving his younger sibling of his share of their parents estate has been ordered by a London High Court to pay compensation to the claimant. <br>The lawsuit accused the older brother of forging his mother’s signature to cut his younger brother out of his half of an inheritance worth over the $1.52 million [£1.2 million].<br>Robert Grierson, 56, was sued by his brother Duncan Grierson, 55, after the latter found himself left with less that 1 percent, while Robert inherited 99.35 percent of their parents estate. <br>Robert who specializes in tax and will disputes, the suit alleged, faked a document handing him half the value of his mother&#8217;s home before producing an invalid will allocating to his younger brother Duncan, who is also an attorney, the sum of $12,651, [£10,000].<br>The London High Court heard their mother Elise Grierson previously had willed her estate in equal equal halves to her sons Robert and Duncan, before dramatically changing her will 16 days after their father&#8217;s death. She died weeks later from acute depression in hospital at the age of 84.<br>On their mother&#8217;s demise, Robert Grierson claimed Elise had already signed a declaration of trust in 2013, handing him a half share of her $1.27 million [£1 million], home in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Duncan Grierson, [photo], also an attorney headed to court to challenge a document &#8216;manufactured&#8217; by his tax attorney older brother. <strong>Duncan Grierson</strong> who specializes in estate matters left his sibling with only $12,513, less than one percent of their mother&#8217;s $1.52million fortune</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Duncan headed to court challenging the claims by his brother to the greater part of their parents estate. The High Court presided by Judge Joanne Wicks, ruled that both the gift of half the house and the will were invalid, observing that there was “compelling evidence” that Elise had not signed the trust document herself, while the will was not properly witnessed and was made at a time when Robert could not prove she was of sound mind.<br>The judge made no rulings regarding the source of the forged documentation. There was no findings pointing to Robert being responsible for forgery because he failed to appear in court to defend himself.<br>During the trial, Judge Wicks heard that Elise and her husband, also named Robert, had enjoyed a 60-year marriage, with their son Robert living with them from 1999 and later operating his legal practice from their home on an exclusive private estate.<br>Duncan’s attorney,told the court that the parents treated their sons equally and had “worked extremely hard” to support them, with both going on to study law at the University of Cambridge.<br>After her husband’s death in January 2022, Grierson suffered an “acute grief reaction”, the prosecution told the court. She also suffered depression and a decline in her physical health, and died in hospital in March aged 84.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The lawsuit was over matriarch Elise Grierson&#8217;s home in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. Robert’s defense was struck out following his failure to disclose evidence supporting his sole inheritance, leaving the judge to decide the case on the plaintiff&#8217;s evidence alone</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Duncan went to court to challenge the 2013 document on the basis of forgery and the will on the basis that his mother was mentally unsound, did not understand and properly approve of it, and that it was not witnessed properly.<br>He said a previous will from 2020, dividing her estate equally, was her last true will and that there was no reason for her to have changed her mind in the two intervening years.<br>The plaintiff&#8217;s attorney said an expert had assessed the declaration of trust and said the signature and initials of Elise on it were probably “simulations”.<br>There was also evidence that an “indented tracing guideline” had been followed to produce it, making it “highly probable” that it was not signed by her.<br>Robert’s defense to the action was struck out following his failure to disclose evidence earlier this year, with the judge then left to decide the case on Duncan’s evidence alone.<br>Giving judgment, Judge Wicks said the expert evidence provided “compelling evidence that Elise did not herself sign” the document handing Robert half of the house.<br>“Duncan’s case is that Robert is the only person who could, and would, have placed such simulated signatures on that document, and that he did so in order to acquire by fraud an asset worth about $632,567,” Duncan&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s told the court.<br> </p>

UK tax and estate attorney accused of forging his mother’s signature to grab 99 percent of $1.52million estate loses inheritance lawsuit, court agrees with his younger brother, document is not authentic
