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TORONTO — An Ontario judge overstepped the law in rejecting a man’s decision to disinherit his daughter over allegations he did it because she had a child with a white man, the court of appeal ruled Tuesday.

The desire to prevent discrimination does not allow the court to challenge the validity of an “absolute, unequivocal and unambiguous” will based on third-party allegations of racism, the three-judge panel said.

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“The law does not require a testator to explain, let alone to defend, her reasons for her testamentary dispositions. Indeed, in my view, the privacy of those reasons is inherent in the principle of testamentary freedom,” Justice Eleanore Cronk wrote in the decision.

“The court’s power to interfere with a testator’s testamentary freedom on public policy grounds does not justify intervention simply because the court may regard the testator’s testamentary choices as distasteful, offensive, vengeful or small-minded.”