24 Apr 2023
ESTATE OF T I ANTONIADIS [2023] NZHC 775 ()
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 775
- Court
- High Court
Because the caveator raised credible and consequential evidence — including a substantial and rapid change in testamentary disposition shortly after the caregiver moved in, a handwritten note implicating the caregiver in will instructions, medical records and cognitive testing indicating decline and possible incapacity, contemporaneous concerns about inappropriate use of sleeping medication, suggestive bank transactions and withdrawals while the deceased was in care, and questions about the solicitor's independence given a familial connection to the principal beneficiary — the Court found the…