It's brilliant and very similar to what happened to my lovely old Scottish uncle Stanley Pardoe who died in Houston a few years ago. Stanley died childless & when his 2nd wife died he moved from Helensburgh to Houston to be close to his 2nd cousin, Anne Marie & Iain Brown. We spent lots of time with him throughout my life, he was protective of my dad as their mum had died young & Stanley stepped into big brother role. But once S moved to Houston contact got more difficult, he was so deaf we'd ring Ann Marie to see if he was around to visit, we live in Gloucestershire so its a long way to go, but the answer was always no. In the end we just went there, but A-M was also there, and said he was tired so the visit was brief. When he died we discovered he'd sold the family business, Turners that started in Brown St. Glasgow which he'd inherited from his uncle Lenny who he promised that he'd leave his shares to a Pardoe cos he didn't get on with his business partner Alex turner, for £600+ 5yrs prior to his death but when he died he left just £220k including the value of his house. I got his health records via the court, the GP refused my request because it would make someone very depressed so I went to court as a litigant in person. Fortunately I've written loads of court reports so it wasn't difficult & the records were given to me. A GP friend looked through the records and saw nothing to indicate confusion or similar, the bar for proving mental health issues retrospectively is very high, but he was weak, low & depressed. He broke a rib by turning in bed because of osteoporosis & had various other conditions and painkillers. We don't know what happened to the £400k but lots was given away to the pharmacist for example, and many neighbours. I involved the police and they were good, but they couldn't prove misdemeanour. I think AM deliberately isolated Stanley from my sister and I so she could control his money. I have the court report I wrote if anyone wants to read it.
