Springbok legend Joost van der Westhuizen’s widow Amor Vittone will only inherit a television set from his estate.
This is after the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday ruled the will Joost had drawn up on 2 September 2015, but failed to sign himself, was indeed his last and true testament.
The will was signed by lawyer Ferdinand Hartzenberg, who acted as Commissioner of Oath.
The Master of the High Court and Amor rejected this will.
Amor was of the opinion that despite his motor neuron disease in 2015, Joost was still able to sign a document or at least to make a mark on it.
She opposed an application by Joost’s brother Peter van der Westhuizen and Hartzenberg, who turned to court to have the 2015 will be declared Joost’s last wish.
Judge Hans Fabricius rejected Amor’s blanket denials that Joost was mentally and physically not able to give instructions for the latest will.
She said he simply wasn’t up for it but the judge called her defence “scandalous, to say the least”.
Joost’s brother Pieter van der Westhuizen told IOL the family did not win, but that it was all about Joost’s kids.
“It is their money, not our money. We do not benefit from the will,” he said.
The court ordered Amor to foot the legal bill.
Joost’s belongings were bequeathed to his two children - Jordan, 13 and Kylie, 11, and Joost’s half interest of the Dainfern home in which Amor and the children live will go into Trust with the J9 Foundation.
The children will later also inherit this.