20 Mar 2019
WARE v REID AND HARRIS [2019] NZHC 506
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 506
- Court
- High Court
The will provided adequate provision for the applicant; there was no breach of the deceased's moral duty as judged by the objective standard of a wise and just testator, and the Court will not use the Act to equalise family wealth by forensic CPI adjustments or by enforcing the testator's subjective testamentary intentions; claim dismissed.
- Family protection act 1955
- Adequate provision
- Moral duty
- Testamentary intention
- Valuation of lifetime benefits