Frizelle v Old [2009] NSWSC 1259

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Frizelle v Old [2009] NSWSC 1259

HEARING DATE(S) : 19/08/09, 20/08/09, 10/09/09, 11/09/09

JUDGMENT DATE : 23 November 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

DECISION : Order for provision out of father's estate. No order for provision out of mother's estate.

CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION - family provision - claim by adult daughter on estates of both parents - plaintiff one of two adult children - estate left to them equally by mother - father's estate given predominantly to son - some estrangement between plaintiff and father until last years of his life - whether plaintiff left without adequate provision - held inadequate provision by father but not by mother - limited relief granted

LEGISLATION CITED : Family Provision Act 1982, ss 6(1)(b), 7, 9(2) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, Schedule 7

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Benney v Jones (1991) 23 NSWLR 559 Clemens v Byrnes [2007] NSWSC 421 Cropley v Cropley [2002] NSWSC 349 Eather v Maher [2006] NSWSC 746 Fellows v Paterson [2002] NSWSC 190 Foley v Ellis [2008] NSWCA 288 Goodman v Windeyer (1980) 144 CLR 490 Kalmar v Kalmar [2006] NSWSC 437 Kleinig v Neal (No 2) [1982] 2 NSWLR 532 CASES CITED : Nicholls v Hall [2007] NSWCA 356 Palmer v Dolman, Dolman v Palmer [2005] NSWCA 361 Permanent Trustee Co Ltd v Fraser (1996) 36 NSWLR 24 Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith v Scales [1962] HCA 19; (1962) 107 CLR 9 Re Fulop (1987) 8 NSWLR 679; Bosch v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd [1938] AC 463 Re Gilbert (1946) 46 SR (NSW) 318 Scott v Scott [2009] NSWSC 567 Singer v Berghouse [1994] HCA 40; (1994) 181 CLR 201 Vigolo v Bostin & Ors [2005] HCA 11; (2005) 221 CLR 191 Walker v Walker (unreported, NSWSC, 17 May 1996)