Mentor Man Accused of Illegally Altering Client's Will Has Arraignment Postponed

A Mentor man accused of illegally altering a dying woman's will was supposed to appear Monday in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

Instead, William Dilley's arraignment was postponed until March 14 at his request, according to the court docket.

Dilley, 66, is .

He was the financial adviser of Betty Montgomery, who lived in the Stratford Commons nursing home in Glenwillow.

Montgomery had no family and planned to divide her considerable estate between three friends, Save-A-Pet and the Holy Cancer Family Home.

However, Dilley altered her will and coerced her into signing it, so he would be the sole heir of her $750,000 estate, prosecutors said.

When Montgomery died in 2009, Dilley filed the altered will in probate court and Montgomery's original beneficiaries challenged it. The civil litigation ultimately led to the criminal charges after police investigated, prosecutors said.