24 Dec 2019
HILL v WADDINGHAM [2019] NZHC 3505
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 3505
- Court
- High Court
Court found an oral testamentary promise was made; applicant performed qualifying services beyond ordinary friendship (longstanding companionship, routine farm work, travel, domestic assistance and keeping the farm running when deceased became incapacitated); nexus between promise and services satisfied; $100,000 bequest plus reciprocal benefits did not reasonably recompense applicant; having weighed services (tangible and intangible), reciprocal benefits, estate size and competing claims, a further sum of $350,000 was appropriate to provide reasonable recompense (total effective provision $4…