Lee lawyer, care center dispute family's claim that woman with dementia had will changed By AISLING SWIFT
Published Tuesday, September 18FORT MYERS Thirty days before her death, 84-year-old Audrey Muller was wheeled from a Lee County skilled care nursing unit and back into her bedroom in the assisted living section. It was June 9, and the retired longtime Edison State College dean had lost 70 pounds, suffered from dementia, three types of cancer and was on heavy painkillers. The civil lawsuit that describes her medical condition in her final days also alleges that two friends who were asked to be witnesses watched as a nursing home employee "guided" her hand to sign a new will that amended her 1992 will and trust. "She was almost comatose and she did not acknowledge (the friends) and most importantly, someone had to hold her hand to sign, " attorney Steven Jaffe told a judge at a recent hearing.
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