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Bob, the ridiculously rich owner of Trope & co., is finally dead. He wants to leave everything to his children in his will, but his Treacherous Advisor or his Gold Digger wife interferes. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A common plotline during a Succession Crisis or inheritance squabbles involves someone altering the contents of the deceased's will. Whether by forgery, magic or other shenanigans, the individual will tamper with the document or replace it with a new one, leaving the succession to himself or his heirs. The rightful heir will be stunned, and his suspicions will eventually lead him to pursue the truth. Often, the perpetrator will be an aunt, uncle or a Gold Digger spouse. In real life, a will that is found to have been forged or unduly influenced by another party will be found invalid by a probate court, which generally results in the estate being distributed by intestate succession statutes instead. If the deceased's will has not been found, see Lost Will and Testament. Common in Law Procedural and Murder Mysteries. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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Stunt Dawgs: Fungus' lawyer forged a will where Splat's family's fortune belongs to Skidd and Skidd has to keep it otherwise the Stunt Dawgs will lose their funds. | |
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The Case of the Velvet Claws: The will leaving everything to George Belter's nephew Carl Griffin is a forgery. This turns out to be an unusual example in that Belter actually did leave everything to Carl. George's widow Eva, who knows that Carl knows about the will, destroys the genuine copy and forges another will leaving everything to Carl, intending for it to be exposed as a forgery. | |
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Spoofed in The Simpsons: When Marge's great-aunt Gladys dies she leaves a Video Will. The lawyer edits it to say "I leave my lawyer $50,000." A look from the family lets him know they don't believe it, but he says "You'd be surprised how often that works, you really would!" | |
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One of the late game plot points of Another Code is the revelation that one of the two Edwards brothers attempted this to gain access to the family fortune after their father died. This act ultimately leads to the breaking point between them and ends up with one of them dead. | |
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The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XXX) mentions that Gianni Schicchi, one of the souls in the eighth circle of Hell, had impersonated Buoso de Donati in order to create a forged will which assigned a prize mare to himself. This brief mention was adapted into Puccini's one-act opera Gianni Schicchi, which gives the title character a noble motive for his alleged greed. | |
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The Forger in Town of Salem does this as his primary role, where he can change up to three wills per game to spread false information or make it a Lost Will and Testament, in order to protect the Mafia. | |
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Judge Dee: A complicated case in "The Chinese Maze Murders": On the death of a great court official, his will gave a good deal to his second wife and her son. His first son challenged the will and produced a "real" one that disinherited the widow for adultery, claiming her son was from an affair. The son left only an ornate painting by the official to the widow, which she presented to every magistrate when they took up residence every few years, along with her story. Finally Dee is able to crack the code and discover the secret of the painting, the true will (in which the official begs the reader to have some mercy for his misguided son), and the just-killed corpse of a kidnapped woman (unrelated to the will case, the murderer is a Psycho Lesbian and an artist who figured out the painting's secret and used the hiding place to keep her victim away). The son bursts into tears when the real will is read out in public, but since he plotted to betray the city to barbarian hordes and rule as a satellite kingdom, the posthumous plea probably won't have much effect on his sentence. | |
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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?: In "Hollywood Knights!", the gardener who works at the supposedly haunted mansion is trying to scare the late owner's daughter so nobody would challenge the will he forged to make himself the new owner. | |
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Robin (1993): Tim Drake thoroughly edits his parents' wills, not to get more money since they left him everything that wasn't left to his stepmother Dana anyway, but to put in sections on his guardianship in order to avoid becoming a ward of the state. He creates a fictional brother for his father and even leaves the man (a hired actor) a portion of his father's estate in order to have control over who he lives with and where. | |
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Lampshaded in Witches Abroad. When being told the story of how the old Baron of Genua died, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg both make the assumption that the one now in control, the Duc, has control because of a will discovered shortly after the Baron's death with the ink still wet. They're not far off the mark, but the Duc is actually a Puppet King being controlled by someone else entirely. | |
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Casper: Discussed. Upon learning the contents of her father's will, Carrigan berates Dibbs for not forging one. | |
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In the French TV series Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin has an episode titled "La tabatière de l'Empereur" (The Emperor's snuff box) in which the titular Gentleman Thief inherits from a friend a snuff box that saved that friend's life during the war. When said box is not mentioned at the reading of the will, he knows it has been forged because the defunct was too honor-bound to simply forget about it. | |
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Monk, "Mr. Monk and the Other Woman". Todd Katterskill knew he'd been cut out of his uncle's will, so he forged one saying he had inherited everything and hid it in the files belonging to Pratt, his uncle's lawyer. He killed Pratt to keep him from outing it as a fake and burned a file at random to send the police on a wild goose chase. | |
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Rome. Marc Antony doesn't do anything to Julius Caesar's will (it leaves all his money to Octavian, whom Antony assumes he can control) but isn't above using this trope for other corrupt practices. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire and the TV show based on it, Game of Thrones, as King Robert is dying, he dictates his will for Eddard Stark to write. Robert says "to my son, Joffrey", but Ned replaces this with "to my rightful heir", as he had learned that Joffrey is not actually Robert's son. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, there is a horde of salvage worth a small fortune stuck in legal limbo on Dantooine, as everybody with a legal claim to it is dead. The authorities have had to deal with numerous forged wills and the player character can ultimately wind up finding the real will. You have the choice of whether or not to alter the will in order to inherit the contested loot. If you do alter the will, the authorities will recognize it but will give you the cache anyway because they are tired of dealing with the issue. If you do not alter it, the situation remains ultimately unresolved as it leaves the horde to somebody who is also dead, so there is still no clear solution for the authorities. | |
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Game of Thrones: Portrayed sympathetically when, as he is dying, King Robert dictates his will for Eddard Stark to write. Robert says "to my son, Joffrey", but Ned replaces this with "to my rightful heir", as he has learned that Joffrey is not actually Robert's son but wishes to spare his dying friend the truth. | |
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In the Deryni novel Camber The Heretic, Cinhil Haldane's will turns out to contain a codicil that allows an anti-Deryni faction amongst the regents to seize power. Whether the codicil is legitimate or forged is never made clear. Then in The Bastard Prince, Cinhil's son Rhys Michael alters his will to give legal cover to a move against the evil regents. | |
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One Rumpole of the Bailey story revolves around a forged will; Rumpole is retained by the true beneficiary to represent her in challenging the false will. (He's initially reluctant to venture into a civil court case, but he can't resist a good forgery.) | |
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Variation in the 1989 Batman movie, where following the death of Carl Grissom, boss of Gotham City's extensive underworld, the cover story is that he's disappeared somewhere else, and one of his old underlings tries to publicly claim that Grissom left him in charge of all his businesses until he comes back. A gathering of reporters are, collectively, skeptical of this, while supporting character Knox starts to ask if they can prove it all, but rolls his eyes almost as he says it and is already sure they have that arranged. As a representative starts to go through the motions, claiming that they have witnesses to the signing, that's when the Joker (who, in fact, saw Grissom die because he's the one who pulled the trigger) turns up with a point-sharp feather pen... | |
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In Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen, Mick Stranahan forges a will in the name of presumed-dead Joey Perrone, leaving $13 million to her husband, as a ploy to find out just how greedy he really is. Joey would never have lavished such money on her scumbag of a husband as long as she was alive, which she happens to still be. | |
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In the Hercule Poirot book Peril at End House the will of Magdala "Nick" Buckley is forged by the Crofts. In another Christie story, the dying rich woman had made a will in favor of her relatives, but since then had fallen under the influence of a pair of scammers, with the new will being massively in their favor. Everyone- her friends, her relatives, her servants- could see they were up to no good, but could do nothing against the will. After her death, the will was removed from its sealed envelope... and contained nothing but blank paper, meaning the previous will was considered the right one, leaving the scammers with nothing. The new will was written in slow-acting Invisible Ink that would eventually become transparent. |
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In Professor Layton and the Last Specter, Chief Constable Levin 'Third Eye' Jakes changes Mr Barde's, the primary landowner of the town, will to leave the majority of Misthallery to Mayor Triton, Barde's only friend, as part of Jakes' plan with Jean Descole to become Mayor and find the Golden Garden. | |
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