Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation
Capacity, knowledge and approval, pressure, execution, challenges, personal representatives, alterations, codicils, revocation, divorce and gifts.
How to study for FLK2
Use closed-book rule anchors, realistic client facts, primary-classification ranges and an ethical decision check across every subject.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Apply testamentary capacity, knowledge and approval, duress, undue influence, formal execution and burden of proof.
Exam cue: Build a chronology of execution, alteration, relationship event and death.
Concept 2
Advise on executor eligibility and suitability, renunciation and reservation of power.
Exam cue: Separate will validity from the success or failure of a particular gift.
Concept 3
Determine the effect of pre- or post-execution alteration, codicil, later instrument, destruction, marriage, civil partnership, divorce or dissolution.
Concept 4
Interpret gift types, lapse, ademption, abatement and other failure using the will and surrounding legal rules.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming suspicious circumstances automatically invalidate the will.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Treating divorce as automatic revocation of the entire will.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Memory anchors
Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation: scope
Capacity, knowledge and approval, pressure, execution, challenges, personal representatives, alterations, codicils, revocation, divorce and gifts.
Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation: focus 1
Apply testamentary capacity, knowledge and approval, duress, undue influence, formal execution and burden of proof.
Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation: focus 2
Advise on executor eligibility and suitability, renunciation and reservation of power.
Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation: focus 3
Determine the effect of pre- or post-execution alteration, codicil, later instrument, destruction, marriage, civil partnership, divorce or dissolution.
Wills: Validity, Construction and Revocation: focus 4
Interpret gift types, lapse, ademption, abatement and other failure using the will and surrounding legal rules.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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