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If the will writer was killed, their murderer is automatically disinherited. The heir just has to prove they did it, setting up a [[Murder Mystery]]. Forgery and tampering are subtler crimes, so are usually left to the more cerebral mysteries.
A marriage or divorce which took place after the will was drafted may invalidate it; conversely "separated" is still technically "married", an annoying legal pitfall for inheritances.
If the villain simply had undue influence on the will writer, such as a [[Black Widow]], or if the will is unreasonable, the only option is to take it to court. Many of the [[On One Condition|more bizarre conditions]] would be thrown out if they were challenged, but these cases are notoriously slow, so are seldom the main focus of a plot.
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* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' has [[McGuffin|Marvin Acme's will]], which was hidden. ([[Hidden in Plain Sight|In plain sight]], as a matter of fact.)
* ''Greedy'' is pretty much entirely about the second and third paragraphs under ''Writing the Will'', above.
* ''The Ultimate Gift'' uses a will at the beginning of the film to set up the story. The protagonist has to perform the convoluted tasks set forth in the will in order to inherit billions.
* ''[[Dark and Stormy Night]]'' plays this to the hilt as the set piece. Complete with and [[Old Dark House]].
* ''[[All of Me]]'' has [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|the main character's lawyer]] suggesting in no uncertain terms that the will may be challenged "if you are not of sound mind" after an abrupt, unexpected change leaves everything inexplicably to one person.
* [[The Film of the Book|The film adaptation]] of ''[[The Borrowers]]'' involves an unscrupulous lawyer claiming that the deceased in question never wrote a proper will, thus making him the sole beneficiary of her estate including the house that her niece's family — the film's protagonists — are currently living in. In reality, she had an extra copy hidden in the walls of the house itself because [[Properly Paranoid|she never did trust lawyers]].
* ''[[Mousehunt]]'' kicks off with the protagonists' father leaving them his string factory and an old repossessed house that turns out to be (A) the work of a famous architect and (B) inhabited by the eponymous mouse.
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