JENNIFER PATRICIA MURRAY as executor of the estate of ALEC KUMAR SODHY v HILL

• 1. Succession
  2. › Family provision
  3. › Adequate provision for proper maintenance, support, education or advancement in life
  4. › Adult child of deceased
  5. › Estranged child with no relationship with deceased
  6. › Quantum of provision
  7. › Whether provision of $1.1 million was unreasonable or plainly unjust
  8. › Family Provision Act 1972 (WA), s 6(1)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Discretionary decisions
  3. › Appellate review of family provision orders
  4. › Whether primary judge allowed extraneous matters to guide discretion
  5. › Whether primary judge failed to take into account material considerations
  6. › Whether weighting error amounts to discretionary error
  7. › House v The King principles
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Adequacy of reasons
  3. › Family provision proceedings
  4. › Whether reasons for quantum of provision were legally adequate
  5. › Instinctive synthesis or intuitive assessment

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