Court blocks estranged wife’s claim to hubby’s estate

A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED woman who left her husband 16 years ago has lost her bid to be declared as his surviving spouse after he married another woman and started a family.

Joyce Charlie had sued the executor, Mativenga Lloyd Mhushi, the Master of High Court, Wellington, Hillary, Italian, Elector and Diana Charlie and Elinah Nyamayaro representing the deceased husband’s son Edgah.

Joyce had approached the High Court seeking a declaratur that the sole asset of the estate of the late Martin Charlie be declared a matrimonial property and reflect her as the sole beneficiary of the property.

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