deathbed marriage

A Thought Experiment Recently, I had the opportunity to co-author a paper on deathbed retainers with Justin de Vries. In drafting this paper, I had the occasion to think about deathbed wills from every conceivable angle. The idea for this blog started as footnote 81: a hypothetical thought experiment on the legal interaction between a deathbed marriage and a deathbed will. Case law on deathbed retainers and wills stand at….