6 Sept 2023
RE: CROSS [2023] NZHC 2497
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 2497
- Court
- High Court
The Court was satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the handwritten amendments dated 31 July 2021 were in the deceased's handwriting, signed and dated, were consistent with contemporaneous statements to family and friends expressing an intention to change the will, and that the delay before death was reasonably explicable; accordingly the document expresses the deceased's testamentary intentions and the Court declares it to be the valid last will under s14 Wills Act 2007.