Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2020 #181John Robinson Noble (Mr Noble) died in 2014. The plaintiff was his youngest daughter, and the first and second defendants were respectively his eldest daughter and his son. Mr Noble left a will, of which the first defendant was the sole executrix. The will provided that Mr Noble’s estate should be held in trust for such of his children as survived him by 14 days and if more than one then in equal shares. His will expressed the wish that either of his daughters be permitted to live in his dwelling house (the family home) for so long as they require, but making clear that this expression w...
Heather Conway and Sheena Grattan look at family provision, adult children and property transfers In our opinion, it would be wrong to read Noble as signalling a fundamentally different approach, given that Noble was dealing with a very different set of factual circumstances Noble v Morrison [2020] is the first reported family provision case in …
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