Brothers dispute Australian parents’ wills as court blocks exhumation request

Two brothers are fighting in a New South Wales Supreme Court case over their late parents’ estates, with one alleging that copies of wills leaving the estate to his brother are forged. The dispute matters because the court must decide how the estate is managed while the wills’ validity remains contested, amid years of intense conflict between the brothers.

Their parents died less than eight weeks apart in late 2023, leaving a Lakemba apartment worth about A$555,000. The disputed 2010 wills would leave Antonio A$1,000, while he says there were no valid wills; a proposed settlement to divide the estate and exhume and rebury their parents in Greece fell apart. A judge appointed an independent administrator and barred exhumation without further court approval.