16 Mar 2021
Re Estate of Olive Ruby Piper [2021] NZHC 534
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 534
- Court
- High Court
The application to validate the draft will was declined because the Court was not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the draft prepared 30 March 2020 and sent 22 April 2020 expressed the deceased's testamentary intentions, given the lack of confirmation by the deceased, the significant delay before death and the destruction of primary handwritten notes, such that s 14 could not be applied.