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A widow whose husband of 66 years left her out of his will won her High Court battle for a share of his estate worth more than £1million.
Karnail Singh left everything to his two sons and nothing to widow Harbans Kaur, or his four daughters, a judge was told.
Mr Justice Peel heard that Mr Singh, who died in 2021, “wished to leave his estate solely down the male line”.
He heard that Mrs Kaur estimated the estate to be worth £1.9 million, gross, but one of her sons put the value at £1.2 million.
The judge, who heard the family had run a clothing business, ruled Mrs Kaur should get 50% of the net value of the estate.
He said it was clear “reasonable provision” had not been made for Mrs Kaur, whose income consisted of state benefits of around £12,000.
Mr Justice Peel has outlined detail of his decision in a written ruling after considering evidence at a recent hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
“The claimant and the deceased married in 1955, so that by the time of his death they had been married for about 66 years,” said the judge in his ruling.
