I think I might start out by asking for a copy of the will; if your claimant isnt a beneficiary, then it would not be as easy to argue that there isnt a rent liability. If on the other hand he was the only beneficiary with his mother as executor things might be a little different.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
