In “The New Undue Influence,” Professors Horton and Weisbord examine the common law and statutory approaches to undue influence as a means of invalidating inheritance, and whether these approaches adequately meet the public policy reasons behind them. The article treats the common law approach to undue influence as the “problem child of inheritance law”.1 which represents “a murky combination of fraud and duress (which) purports to invalidate the inheritance that a beneficiary has received