CB [2001] NIFam 31 (Rev1) (18 June 2001)

[6]������� AB made a will on 5 November 1995 in which she appointed the respondent as her sole executor and bequeathed all her estate to XZ and YZ in equal shares.� CB averred that her mother had told her that she had made another will recently, but this cannot be found.� She denied that she was annoyed that the house in Belfast was not left to her.

[9]������� On 16 August, XZ went to London to see F at her invitation.� The respondent turned up. According to CB, XZ rang her in hysterics saying he would not let her to return to Northern Ireland and that she and YZ had to come to London.� CB spoke to the respondent and said she was going to travel to London to find out what was going on.� The respondent was rude to her and said she would not get through the door.� XZ required a sedative to get her to sleep.

[11]����� CB thought they parted on good terms.� She understood when he left on 18/19 August that he was allowing them to stay with her and to go to school in Northern Ireland and that they could stay here until they were ready to return to the Far East.

[12]����� The respondent returned to Singapore.� He had consulted solicitors in Northern Ireland and on advice applied in Burma for a court order in respect of the children.� It is not clear whether he returned to Burma for this purpose at this time.

[13]����� CB set about arranging their education.� She was unsuccessful in obtaining places in two schools in Belfast but obtained places in a third school. Problems arose over outstanding bills. CB forwarded them to him, and he paid two sums of �980 into her account on 30 August 2000.� If the girls were to remain in Northern Ireland, by whom and how this would be funded seems to have been an irritation in the background. CB was on income support from 8 August 2000.� The girls commenced school in Belfast and, according to CB, settled in quite well.