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The future of will disputes part 2: Challenging validity based on issues with execution
Sophie Mass
Sophie is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. She specialises in trust, estate and court of protection disputes, often acting in high value and complex cases.
Sophie has experience acting in a broad range of matters, including will validity disputes, financial provision claims, breach of trust claims and trustee removal applications. She regularly acts in Court of Protection disputes regarding the appointment of attorneys or deputies, which often involve serious allegations of wrongdoing, and in statutory will proceedings.
Sophie’s wider litigation experience includes high value commercial, civil fraud, insolvency, and professional negligence claims.
Areas of expertise
- Trust and Estate Disputes
- Court of Protection Disputes
- Commercial and Contract Disputes
- Professional negligence
- Civil Fraud
- Insolvency Litigation
- Multi-jurisdictional disputes
in the press
- Financial abuse on the rise: what can advisers do to help? FT Adviser, February 2024
- The clearest possible case for an Inheritance Act claim by a surviving spouse, eprivateclient, February 2023
recent work
- Acting for beneficiaries, executors and personal representatives in a wide range of inheritance and probate claims, including cases where wills have been challenged on the grounds of forgery, incapacity or undue influence
- Acting for a spouse in a claim under the 1975 Act
- Acting for a beneficiary of his father’s estate in relation to a dispute regarding the beneficial ownership of the matrimonial home in an intestacy
- Acting for an executor of an estate in relation to a removal claim
- Acting for the trustees of a family trust in relation to a trust dispute and a trustee removal application
- Acting for a client bringing a claim on behalf of the estate in her capacity as executrix to challenge a lifetime transfer on the grounds of lack of capacity and/or undue influence
- Acting in a wide variety of complex court of protection disputes
- Advising a company in relation to a potential professional negligence claim in relation to a construction project
memberships
- Young Fraud lawyers Association
- ConTrA
- Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association
What clients and directories have said
Sophie Mass and Anna Metadjer are also excellent."
The Legal 500, 2024