CASE: Leary v NSW Trustee and Guardian [2017] NSWSC 1113

Colleen Pidcock's Will left her estate to be divided equally between her 4 children... subject to the money they owed her.

Her son John Leary owed her $551,541. This was the amount of money that Colleen spent on John's legal fees from that time 8 years earlier when John had kidnapped his 3 year old daughter, absconded overseas, and tried to ransom the child back to her mother.

John was claiming that he never agreed to pay his mother back for the legal fees and he was actually wanting more of his mother's estate.