Farr v Hardy [2008] NSWSC 996

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Farr v Hardy [2008] NSWSC 996

HEARING DATE(S) : 06/03/08, 07/03/08 and 12/03/08

JUDGMENT DATE : 25 September 2008

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : White J

DECISION : Counsel for the defendants to bring in short minutes of order in accordance with the reasons.

CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION – family provision and maintenance – whether adequate provision made for widow – widow provided with a right of residence and the right to income from one-third of the estate until she marries or enters into a de facto relationship – widow has scant personal resources – widow contributed substantially as a homemaker – normally appropriate for widows to take house in fee simple – clearly inadequate provision - SUCCESSION – wills – construction – restraint of marriage – whether restraint was effective – gift of personalty – gift over – restraint effective

Family Provision Act 1982 (NSW) Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Succession Act 2006 (NSW) Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 2007 (NSW) Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1930 (NSW)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Luciano v Rosenblum (1985) 2 NSWLR 65 Re Keenan (1913) 30 WN (NSW) 214 Leong v Chye [1955] AC 648 Jarvis v Duke (1681) 1 Vern 19; 23 ER 274 Scott v Tyler (1788) Dick 712; 21 ER 448; 2 Bro CC 431; 29 ER 241 Lloyds v Branton (1817) 3 Mer 108; 36 ER 42 In re Hanlon [1933] Ch 254 Potter v Richards (1855) 24 LJ Ch 488 Heath v Lewis (1853) 3 De G M & G 954; 43 ER 374 Re King's Trusts (1892) 29 LR Ir 401 Evans v Rosser (1864) 2 H&M 190; 71 ER 435 Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd v Fenton (1940) 40 SR (NSW) 382 Fenton v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (1940) 64 CLR 52 Singer v Berghouse (No. 2) (1994) 181 CLR 201 CASES CITED : Dijkhuijs (formerly Coney) v Barclay (1988) 13 NSWLR 639 Re Buckland, Deceased [1966] VR 404 O'Loughlin v O'Loughlin [2003] NSWCA 99 Golosky v Golosky (NSW Court of Appeal, 5 October 1993, unreported) Bladwell v Davis [2004] NSWCA 170 Szlazko v Travini [2004] NSWSC 610 Moore v Moore (NSW Court of Appeal, 16 May 1984, unreported, BC8400340) Court v Hunt (NSW Supreme Court, 14 September 1987, BC8701155) White v Barron (1980) 144 CLR 431 Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith v Scales (1962) 107 CLR 9 Walker v Walker (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Young J, 17 May 1996, unreported, BC9602381) Kay v Archbold [2008] NSWSC 254 Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Carey (No. 6) (2006) 153 FCR 509 Public Trustee v Smith [2008] NSWSC 397 Re Whitehouse [1982] Qd R 196 Miller v Cameron (1936) 54 CLR 572