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Does iPhone note constitute informal will?
In Peek v Wheatley [2025] NSWSC 554 NSWSC considers whether document found in the ‘Notes’ application on iPhone should be admitted to probate as an informal will.
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[1] The issue in these proceedings is whether an informal document found in the ‘Notes’ application on the iPhone of the late Colin Laurence Peek (Colin or the deceased), who died on 16 August 2022 aged 79 years, should be admitted to probate as an informal will under s 8 of the Succession Act 2006 (NSW).
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