31 Mar 2023
NORAGER v NORAGER [2022] NZHC 699
- Citation
- NORAGER v NORAGER [2022] NZHC 699
- Court
- High Court
The court held that it has jurisdiction to discharge the order nisi and appoint a temporary administrator under s7 because the holder of an order nisi occupies a position akin to a temporary administrator and, given the allegations of undue influence and the executor's multiple conflicting roles (executor, beneficiary, trustee and company director/shareholder), independence and impartiality could not be assured; to preserve and properly manage estate assets pending substantive adjudication the order nisi was discharged and solicitor Mason Lockhart was to be appointed as temporary administrato…