In episode 1: the first inheritance battle ever to hit the High Courts featured blood brothers John and Terry. Their parents had adopted a son into their home and hearts and left everything to him - and not a penny to their own flesh and blood. What ensued was a court battle that caused untold misery and changed inheritance law forever.
In episode 2: the shocking story of Tory politician and model Diana Coad, who after losing her husband and love of her life Peter, enters a vicious legal battle with his children. After years of bitter fighting, Diana loses everything. She throws herself at the mercy of the courts... and pays the ultimate price.
A dark, twisting tale in which doting daughter Daphne loses her mother and all her inheritance after a mysterious stranger comes into their lives. He gets closer and closer to Daphne's elderly mother and secretly marries her. After her mother's death a bitter legal battle ensues over how her body should be laid to rest and the case ends up in the house of Commons. Plus, the extraordinary case of the Lord whose Ming vase collection worth £8million shattered the lives of his children.
This edition features the ultimate David and Goliath tale in which grieving widow Jane takes on the full force of The Ministry of Defence in an epic eight-year inheritance battle. After her partner and soul mate suddenly dies just before they were due to wed, Jane finds herself fighting for survival.