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Deputy minister's widow, step daughters in estate wrangle
09 Aug 2017 at 12:49hrs | Views
The widow of the late former Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development deputy minister Seiso Moyo is locked in a legal wrangle with her two stepdaughters over the ex-MDC Nketa legislator's estate.
Moyo died in December 2012 due to heart failure.
His daughters, Glenda Paballo and Beatrice Joyce, took their stepmother, Sinini Moyo, the surviving spouse, to court, accusing her of ganging up with the executor of their late father's estate and fraudulently inheriting properties without consulting all the beneficiaries.
Glenda and Beatrice are challenging the final liquidation and distribution of their late father's estate.
They argued that some of their father's assets were deliberately left out of his estate by their step mother.
High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva nullified the final liquidation and distribution account in the estate, saying it was fraught with gross irregularities.
The final liquidation and distribution account excluded a house in Bulawayo and another in Beitbridge as well as a top-of-the-range vehicle, which Moyo used as his official government car.
The applicants, through their lawyer Jabulani Mhlanga of Masiye-Moyo and Associates, argued that the executor erred in distributing the estate.
"The executor did not fully apply his mind into the objections and concerns raised by the beneficiaries in winding up the estate of the late Moyo.
"There is a serious malicious misrepresentation of facts by Sinini and the executor rendering the final liquidation and distribution account biased and one sided," said the applicant.
On the other hand, Sinini through her lawyer Robert Ndlovu of R Ndlovu and Company said the car, a Land Rover Discovery could not be part of the estate assets, since at the time of Moyo's death the vehicle was government property.
She further submitted that in terms of the law the house in Bulawayo's Nketa 7 suburb and a house in Beitbridge's low density area were matrimonial properties registered under her name.
Moyo died in December 2012 due to heart failure.
His daughters, Glenda Paballo and Beatrice Joyce, took their stepmother, Sinini Moyo, the surviving spouse, to court, accusing her of ganging up with the executor of their late father's estate and fraudulently inheriting properties without consulting all the beneficiaries.
Glenda and Beatrice are challenging the final liquidation and distribution of their late father's estate.
They argued that some of their father's assets were deliberately left out of his estate by their step mother.
High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva nullified the final liquidation and distribution account in the estate, saying it was fraught with gross irregularities.
The applicants, through their lawyer Jabulani Mhlanga of Masiye-Moyo and Associates, argued that the executor erred in distributing the estate.
"The executor did not fully apply his mind into the objections and concerns raised by the beneficiaries in winding up the estate of the late Moyo.
"There is a serious malicious misrepresentation of facts by Sinini and the executor rendering the final liquidation and distribution account biased and one sided," said the applicant.
On the other hand, Sinini through her lawyer Robert Ndlovu of R Ndlovu and Company said the car, a Land Rover Discovery could not be part of the estate assets, since at the time of Moyo's death the vehicle was government property.
She further submitted that in terms of the law the house in Bulawayo's Nketa 7 suburb and a house in Beitbridge's low density area were matrimonial properties registered under her name.
Source - dailynews
