re: Why have a will?

My grandmother had a will which I was included in. My dad passed away 10 years before my grandmother passed away. A few years after my dad passed my grandmother started showing signs of alzheimer's which progressed.

She was staying with my aunt (dad's only sibling) and uncle. After she passed away, I learned that right before she was put in a home, my aunt & her daughter took her to their lawyer. They had a new will drawn up that she had to sign. Evidently after almost 2 hours of trying to get her to sign she wouldn't do it (I didn't think a lawyer could allow someone to sign if they had to be forced to sign.. Or play a role in convincing someone to sign).

They took her back home and after a few hours, they convinced to allow them to take her back to the lawyer and willingly sign the will.

All I know is that my aunt's daughter's (obviously my cousin) husband introduced my uncle to the Stanford Financial Group, which he ended up investing a good bit of money into (as well as their daughter's husband). SFG was seized by the federal government in 2009 because it was a fraud.

In 2009 (I think mid part of the year) my grandmother was put in a home. But all of that is besides the point. Somehow they were able to get my grandmother to sign a new will that a lawyer had drawn on at the advice of my aunt which completely eliminated me out of.