Ebert v Ebert; Ebert v Ebert [2008] NSWSC 1206

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Ebert v Ebert; Ebert v Ebert [2008] NSWSC 1206

HEARING DATE(S) : 23 and 24 October 2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 November 2008

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Ward J at 1

DECISION : In 4273/07 - Order made for provision in favour of the cross-claimant. In 4560/08 - Summons dismissed. No order as to costs.

CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION - family provision and maintenance - failure of testator to make sufficient provision for applicant - whether child left with insufficient provision - provision found to be insufficient - whether estate included debt in respect of moneys advanced to or for benefit of adult child - whether there had a been prescribed transaction - whether an order designating property as notional estate should be made - relief granted. SUCCESSION - family provision and maintenance - practice - application for leave to extend time for making a claim against second cross-defendant - whether sufficient cause

Civil Procedure Act 2005 LEGISLATION CITED : Family Provision Act 1982 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

De Winter v Johnstone (Court of Appeal, 23 August 1995, unreported) Delaney v Jones, [2008] NSWSC 229 Fernance v Nominal Defendant (1989) 17 NSWLR 710 Fiorentini v O'Neill (Court of Appeal, 4 December 1998, unreported Gorton v Parks (1989) 17 NSWLR 1 Gray v Gray [2004] NSWCA 408 Heydon v Perpetual Executors, Trustees & Agency Co (WA) Ltd (1930) 45 CLR 111 Hildebrandt v Soncini [2007] NSWSC 1227 Ketteman v Hansel [1987] AC 189 Lewis v Lewis, [2001] NSWSC 321 CASES CITED : Liff v Peasley [1980] 1 WLR 781 Massie v Laundy (Young J, 7 February 1986, unreported) Maxwell v Public Trustee [2001] NSWSC 764 Nelson v Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 538 Nicholls v Hall [2007] NSWCA 356 Pengilley v Public Trustee (Young J, 9 October 1985 unreported) Re Gilbert (1946) 46 SR NSW 318 Robinson v Tame (Court of Appeal, 9 December 1994, unreported) Singer v Berghouse (No 2) (1994) 181 CLR 201 Smith v Dayman [1994] NSWCA 286 Warren v McKnight (1996) 40 NSWLR 390 Wenham v General Credits Ltd (McLelland J, 16 December 1988, unreported)