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I can recall reading somewhere that this lady had instructed her executors to defend/not settle any claim by the daughter. I expect the charities are resigned to the fact that the costs of this action are probably going to swallow the entire estate,
I believe it was a very long estrangement and for myself, I think, for good cause: and the structuring of the settlement to preserve the daughter's benefits entitlement beggared belief. I don't think she'd ever had a proper job in her life and nor had her husband, while the testatrix had been a hard worker.
The object of the legislature in framing the IPFDA was to provide maintenance to those who had been dependent on the deceased at the date of death, and this daughter could not meet the dependency requirement.
If parents are to be forced to provide for feckless children, then it requires primary legislation - and where will that end? A lifetime and beyond death obligation to maintain?