The High Court dismissed a claim by a United States-based Kenyan woman who alleged that she was the widow of former Cabinet Minister and powerful civil servant Simeon Nyachae. The dispute arose from succession proceedings in which Chweya moved to court claiming spousal and dependency rights over Nyachae’s estate. Chweya had listed Grace Wamuyu and Leon Nyachae as respondents, accusing them of conspiring to exclude her family from the will and deny her inheritance from Nyachae’s estate. She challenged the authenticity of the will produced in court, claiming the signature differed from Nyachae’s and that the executors had omitted some of his properties. However, the court rejected the claim, holding that photographs alone were insufficient to establish the existence of a valid marriage under Kenyan law.