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~All rights are held by ORF or the producing companies, people and their actors!~ Fake wills, secretly made transfer contracts, testators who allegedly no longer knew what they were doing when they signed a "last will" and siblings who had a hopeless falling out over the division of the inheritance are the focus of the "Am Schauplatz Gericht" edition "Who will inherit?" on Thursday, January 10, 2019, at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2. Three cases from Vienna, Styria and Tyrol were documented for years by Ludwig Gantner, Gudrun Kampelmüller and Maria Zweckmayr: When the parents of four siblings died in Styria, they left behind a large farm. To the surprise of three children, however, the old farmers had transferred everything to a brother and his wife shortly before their death. Did the old couple still know what they were doing when they signed the contract? Should a notary have recognized that the transferors were no longer capable of doing business? In 2011, wealthy Tyrolean Mrs. G. died childless. Her niece and nephew had expected that, as the next of kin, they would inherit various properties in Innsbruck. To their surprise, a bank manager was suddenly named as the sole heir in the will. Was the will forged? The case could not even be decided in the first instance for seven agonizing years. In the third case, “Am Schauplatz Gericht” reports on a bitter inheritance dispute between three sisters. Did one of them persuade their old mother to sign a blank sheet of paper in order to make a will in her favor?