Clark v. McNeil, 246 Mass. 250, 254-255. Hannon v. Gorman, 296 Mass. 437, 438. Although we have not summarized all the prospective testimony we have carefully weighed it and we think the decision below should stand. For a somewhat similar case see Cowee v. Morton, 336 Mass. 300. The understandable distress of the daughters that neither parent had provided substantially for grandchildren or more remote issue is not a basis for allowing the motion.

Mitchell v. McLaughlin, 310 Mass. 41, 43-44. Boston Safe Deposit Trust Co. v. Blaisdell, 333 Mass. 51. Cowee v. Morton, 336 Mass. 300. Decree affirmed.

A judge acts affirmatively only when the objector shows "a genuine and doubtful question of fact supported by evidence of such substantial nature as to afford ground for reasonable expectation of a result favorable to the party seeking the framing of the issue." Cowee v. Morton, 336 Mass. 300, 303 (1957). See also Boston Safe Deposit Trust Co. v. Blaisdell, 333 Mass. 51, 55-56 (1955); Plakas v. Plakas, 11 Mass. App. Ct. 922 (1981); 1 Newhall, Settlement of Estates § 42 (4th ed. 1958 Supp. 1985).