WIDOW ALLOWED £7 A WEEK

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 2

WIDOW ALLOWED £7 A WEEK

PROVISION FROM ESTATE OF HUSBAND

A compromise, increasing a widow’s provision from her husband’s estate from £3 a week to £7 a week, was approved by Mr Justice Fleming in the Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiff. Mrs Beatrice Louisa Sharman, of Christchurch, was represented by Dr. A. L. Haslam. The defendants were the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd. (Mr D. W. Russell), executor of the will of Albert Edward Sharman’ Meda Louisa Walton, of Christchurch; Frederick Albert Henry Sharman (Mr J. H Macdonald), company manager, of Christchurch; Stella Beatrice Hodgkiss, of New Plymouth? and (Gilbert Alfred James Sharman (Mr G. G. Lockwood), machinist, of Christchurch. Dr. Haslam said that the testator, who died a year ago, left his widow an annuity of £3 a week, the rest of the estate to the children. The estate, valued at about £lO,OOO, consisted of house property and shop premises In Christchurch. The income was £4BO a year. The family had met their mother’s position fairly, and generously and, subject to the Court’s approval, it had been decided to give the widow all the furniture; the occupancy of one of the flats in the house properly, free of all outgoings; and a clear income of £7 a week.

The Court approved the compromite and made an order accordingly.