Alan appealed the High Court decision, which was issued in November last year. Justice Katz found the Family Court judge relied too leniently on what was fair in treating all her children equally, thereby ordering the will be divided equally. The late Elizabeth Ormsby died in 2007, leaving the family farm, near Otorohanga, to one of her three surviving children. A Waikato family struck by tragedies, including multiple suicides and parental mistreatment, has ended up in the Court of Appeal battling over a $2.33 million family farm. The court found in the sisters' favour and decided the division of the farm should be in equal 33.3 per cent shares.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 13, 2016 10:18 UTC