Lane v Lane & ors [2024] WTLR 615
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2024 #195The claims concerned the estate of Monica Lane (the deceased), who died on 8 May 2019. The deceased had three children, David, Susan (the first defendant) and Peter, the last of whom predeceased her leaving two children, the second and third defendants. David died on 17 January 2021 and Karen (the claimant) was David’s widow and personal representative of his estate.
The deceased and David formed a trading farming partnership, embodied in a 12 October 2002 partnership agreement. That agreement provided that the partnership would dissolve on, among other things, permanent incapacit...