Man asks B.C. court to vary will after partner leaves $500,000 estate to charities

A Richmond man is asking the courts to vary his partner’s will after she left nothing of her $500,000 estate to him, instead leaving the bulk of it to a Christian children’s charity.

Dale Cheney is asking a B.C. Supreme Court judge to find that he’s entitled to half the estate of Sandra Abah, according to the notice of civil claim.

Citing a 2016 B.C. case, his claim says B.C.’s Family Law Act entitles a long-standing spouse to 50 per cent of the total family property, “even where the estate is large and the spouse has no need.”

The claim says Abah had no children when she died in 2023 and that Cheney had lived with her for three years in a Richmond condo that’s worth $640,000 and makes up the bulk of her estate.

Cheney said in

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