5 Oct 2015
AMUNDSON & ORS v RAOS [2015] NZHC 2422
- Citation
- [2015] NZAR 1772
- Court
- High Court
The 2014 unsigned draft will was a document that, on the cogent evidence presented (instructions to solicitor, contemporaneous notes, surrounding circumstances and absence of contradictory evidence), expressed the deceased's testamentary intentions and therefore met the s14 criteria; accordingly the Court declared the draft will valid and ordered probate and approval of the proposed settlement for minor beneficiaries.