24 Nov 2022
SANDRA CHIN (PAYNE) v STEVEN PAYNE as the executor of the estate of Donald Gordon Payne [2022] NZHC 3095
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 3095
- Court
- High Court
The 2009 wills were corresponding but not mutual wills; the constructive trust claim failed because plaintiff's contributions were outweighed by the substantial benefit of long rent‑free occupation and there was no unconscionable conduct by the testator creating an institutional trust; however the deceased breached his moral duty under the Family Protection Act by disinheriting the plaintiff after a long estrangement caused by the deceased and the court must remedy that breach by ordering transfer of the Johnsonville property to the plaintiff and a conservative cash award of $600,000 from the…