The case provides a comprehensive restatement of the principles governing family provision claims by adult children under the Succession Act 2006 (NSW), including the approach to large estates, the weight to be given to testamentary freedom, and the community expectations regarding parental obligations to adult children. The court emphasised that principles stated in prior decisions should not be elevated into rigid rules constraining the statutory discretion. Provision of $240,000 and $140,000 was ordered for two adult children from a reasonably large estate left entirely to the surviving spouse.
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