Husband takes terminally ill wife to court to stop her spending early life insurance payout

The husband of a woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer has taken his wife to court to freeze her bank account to stop her spending the early life insurance payout they were supposed to share.

The husband said the wife claimed against the life insurance policy and had the money paid into a bank account under her sole control; she told her husband he wouldn’t get any of it. There were also claims of deception, with the husband alleging that the wife and one of her daughters forged the husband’s signature on the claim for the payout and/or witnessed that forged signature.

A High Court decision has ruled in favour of the husband to freeze payments from the bank account (with the exception of normal living expenses and legal expenses). Justice Francis Cooke said the terminal illness payout was supposed to be made to both partners jointly but that the wife had taken it for her own use.

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