Christine Gill spent 30 years devoting her life to looking after her parents and in particular running the family farm. Her work as a university lecturer made it easier for her to help at the farm during the bust summer months. She made the sacrifices on the clear understanding that her parents would leave her their 287 acre farm.
However, her father died first and when her mother died aged 82 in 2006, she left the farm and its £2.34 million estate to the charity, the RSPCA. Christine Gill has now started a high court battle to try to win most, if not all, of the estate funds from the charity.
Not surprisingly, the charity is fighting it all the way as they believe it’s their money.
It was claimed Mrs Gill would not have understood what she was doing when she made the will in 1992 and would have felt ‘coerced’ by her husband into signing it.
In particular, Christine Gill cared (helped) a lot more for her mother in the later years as her mother had trouble coping. Her parents had been unable to keep working the farm themselves so they employed people to run it for them.
Christine Gill and her husband bought a rundown neighbouring farmhouse and six acres of land for £33,000. For seven years they lived in a caravan while the farmhouse was renovated. Mrs Gill indicated that she wouldn’t have done all this work or rearranged her life if she wasn’t going to get her share of the farm.
The RSPCA said that Mrs Gill had been mentally capable of making her will. The opposite is what forms the basis of Christines Gill’s claim against her mother’s will.
We’ll have to wait on the judge’s verdict. Had the Gills spoken with LSUK back in the time of making the wills, the couple could have shared the task of metering our their funds to both their daughter and the charity and made the transfers water tight before either of the couple had died and prevented major changes to the will of the last to survive.
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I hope that the RSPCA win this battle and get this money that will be very importante on the fight against cruelty to stop abuse towards animal’s all around UK and the rest of europe, holpefully..Good luck!Vess
We do need to think about how make the world a better place for all animal’s before we die,money is no use after we are dead,it would be much better in the hand’s of charitys, to help stop cruelty and abuse, that does gon on every day! In the streets,family home, unseen by us! If only animal’s could talk! To tell the passer by Please HELP ME?!When we go out and see people with dogs,taking them for a walk,they look at us but they can’t say how much suffering they are subject to everyday!My heart goes to them and i hope the they will break free! One day…please? anybody help? In anyway that you can..If you see a dog in a car,on a hot summer’s day!Don’t just walk away..Please? Call the RSPCA or leave a note.. On the window screen of the car ,asking the person not to do that again..Just a simple juster like that, will help this poor dog’s that stay for hour’s on end, waiting to go home.I see them in car’s outside pub’s,supermarket,park’s..Every where..This is suposed to be an animal loving nation?Well let’s prove it them?Please be a great citizen? And do whatever you can to help them,I’m not from this country and i don’t have much money to spend on myself ,but i have rescued 9 cats from the street’s and have helped them, i help any animal in destress any where that i see them whenever i can.What goes around,come’s around..let’s be good while we’re still here?maybe one day you will be rewarded..And your heart will feel lighter then..specially when we are in bed at night. If we give love..
GOOD LUCK!!
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