Re Stewart - [2003] 1 NZLR 809

Executors and administrators — Duties of executor — Duty of executor to act even-handedly between beneficiaries — Duty to advise potential beneficiaries of fact and date of death of testatrix — Status of Children Act 1969, s 6.

Family protection — Practice and procedure — Limitation of actions — Executor concealing death of testatrix from children omitted from will — Claim by children out of time — Whether limitation period extended by equitable fraud of executors — Limitation Act 1950, s 28.