8 Oct 2019
KIRKWOOD v KIRKWOOD [2019] NZHC 2559
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 2559
- Court
- High Court
The Court declined to remove the administrator because the disputes were entrenched, a full hearing would be disproportionate given the modest estate, and removal would incur unnecessary costs; instead the Court ordered completion of administration and apportioned reasonable costs of the removal application between the estate and the respondent (one half charged to estate and one half deducted from Donald's share). The $1,000 loan was treated as a separate transaction not to be accounted for in estate accounts; ancillary claims were found to be out of time or unlikely to succeed and ashes wer…