Re Groom - [1994] 2 NZLR 576

Family protection — Claims — Time — Claimant's mother and her husband making mutual wills — Death of claimant's mother leaving estate to her husband — Claimant not claiming against mother's estate believing he would benefit from her husband's estate — Husband making further will — Claimant not benefiting thereunder — Mother's estate administered by September 1987 - Mother's estate totally distributed at time of husband's death — Whether leave should be granted to claimant to commence proceedings under Family Protection Act — Whether leave should be granted to claimant under Administration Act to follow assets in mother's estate — Family Protection Act 1955, s 9 - Administration Act 1969, s 49.