30 Jun 2023
ESTATE OF DECLAN CURRAN [2023] NZHC 1669
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 1669
- Court
- High Court
The 14 September 2015 document complied with s11 and is the testator's valid will; the handwritten Appendix A dated 16 December 2019, signed by the testator and expressly stated to form part of his will, is a valid codicil under s14 because it expresses his testamentary intentions; the subsequent red-ink obliteration of paragraph 3.1 together with the post-it note and contextual evidence (emails, timing and placement with the will) demonstrate a clear testamentary intention to remove the bequest to Brian Hancox and the gift-over to Daniel Hancox, and the Court accordingly declared that change…