The applicants brought a motion for directions regarding four potential testamentary documents left by the deceased.
The court found that a 2000 holograph will was valid, but subsequent unsigned alterations increasing specific bequests were invalid.
A 2009 handwritten document was found to be a valid codicil that revoked the bequest of the residue to the deceased's estranged daughter.
This revocation resulted in a partial intestacy regarding the residue.
Despite the deceased's clear intention in the 2009 codicil to disinherit his daughter, the court held that under section 47(1) of the Succession Law Reform Act, the daughter was entitled to the residue as the sole surviving issue on intestacy.
