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“She must be sane. Her handwriting is beautiful.”


How can you tell when somebody has lost the ability to understand a simple transaction? In Ashton Trust v Caraway, an Arkansas court considered an 86- year-old womans’s penmanship in in determining that she knew what she was doing in selling land, even though her son contended that she had Alzheimer’s. Who knew that penmanship could be an important part Read the rest of this entry