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Two wills, two wives and a flock of sheep - the bitter fight over a $2m estate

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« on: April 03, 2016, 08:56:02 am »





Two wills, two wives and a flock of sheep - the bitter fight over a $2m estate
TONY WALL
Last updated 05:00, April 3 2016

Mike and Charmaine Smith loved animals so much, every year they would throw a birthday party – complete with cake – for their pet pig...

..."None of the animals are to be put down or slaughtered ... the funds are to ensure they are looked after until good homes are found," the will stated, adding that he didn't want his dogs to be separated "and my geese are to be donated to a wildlife reserve".

The rest of his estate – he'd been director and shareholder of his family firm Smith Seeds – was to go to various charities, including the World Wildlife Fund, Red Cross, World Vision and Salvation Army.

Charmaine died in May 2014, aged 46, having battled the chronic lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans most of her adult life. She and Mike had been married 28 years.

Mike had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer – he hadn't smoked – at the end of 2012.

On April 22 last year he returned to his lawyers – just a day before flying to Mexico in a desperate last bid to prolong his life with Vitamin C treatment – and signed a new will, much different to the last. It made no mention of animals or charities.

Instead, the sole beneficiary was his new wife, Corrine, whom he had met on an internet dating site ...


... "In 2013 the couple bought a new property near Rolleston, Christchurch, to be closer to medical treatment.

The couple invited Phillips to join them and she lived in a separate flat on the property, continuing to care for the animals and the couple as their health deteriorated.

"It was really a case of who was gonna [die] first."

Shortly after Charmaine's death, Phillips says, Mike told her he'd started talking to women on internet dating sites.

"It seemed totally out of character for Mike, he was so devoted to Charmaine, and he knew he was dying."
One of the women he met was Corrine Hanna, an administrator at AgResearch in Hamilton. After a while she flew down to visit Mike at the Rolleston property.
Property records show that in February last year Mike bought a property near Te Awamutu for $520,000, which Corrine's parents moved into.
The following month, Mike and Corrine were married in Waikato.


Phillips says when Mike was first diagnosed with cancer in 2012 he was given only about a year to live. "It was already in his bones."
But he was still alive in April, 2015 and emailed Russell Moon and Fail estates manager Bruce Day saying he was travelling overseas and had better sign a new will.

Read the rest at
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77932770/two-wills-two-wives-and-a-flock-of-sheep--the-bitter-fight-over-a-2m-estate

Edited even more to try to present a brief summary for Yak.   




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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2016, 09:59:38 am »

I got bogged down in a tedious story that needed summing up in one paragraph.
[Typical of Stuff reporting, actually...]
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2016, 10:53:27 am »

I got bogged down in a tedious story that needed summing up in one paragraph.
[Typical of Stuff reporting, actually...]

Actually I think all it needed was the URL  - which said it all!   
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