[GovernmentShrinker]

I expect the aunt is in some legal hot water. But I also worry about how a probate court is going to view a will prepared by someone who didn't think to mention to the executor that she'd appointed him as such. In a nasty family fight, this could provide grounds for a legal challenge to the deceased person's mental capacity at the time of preparing the will. And if there are any earlier wills lying around, the case could be tied up for years . . .

[supercat]

But I also worry about how a probate court is going to view a will prepared by someone who didn't think to mention to the executor that she'd appointed him as such.

Perhaps the decedent trusted the aunt to relay the message, and the aunt somehow "forgot" but nonetheless claimed she had?