The Court dismissed a caveat opposing a grant of letters of administration on intestacy, holding that the caveator lacked standing because her own grounds of objection admitted she had ceased living with the deceased before the two-year period immediately preceding death required by the definition of 'unregistered domestic partner' in s 3(1) of the Administration and Probate Act 1958 (Vic). The Court further held that a contingent Part IV family provision claim, without more, is insufficient to confer standing to caveat in an intestacy. Separately, even if standing existed, the caveator failed to establish a prima facie case because her grounds contained only bare assertions that the plaintiff was not in a relationship with the deceased, unsupported by any particularised facts or evidence.
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