Re Hale - [1981] 1 NZLR 704

Wills — Family protection — Application for leave to follow distributed assets — Family protection application made within 12 months of the grant of administration but after the main asset in the estate, a farm, had been transferred to beneficiary — Application under s 49 of the Administration Act 1969 for leave to follow assets made outside 12 month period — Whether plaintiff should be granted special leave under the proviso to s 49(3) — Whether plaintiff (adult son of testatrix) was entitled to provision out of estate.