A disgraced nurse has been ordered to return over $880,000 she inherited from a 92-year-old patient she met just weeks before his death. The Supreme Court ruled that Abha Anuradha Kumar should return the funds after obtaining a grant of probate to manage the estate of Lionel Cox, which included proceeds from the sale of his home.
A disgraced nurse has been ordered to hand back more than $880,000 she inherited from a 92-year-old patient she had met just weeks before his death.
The value of the estate had been diminished by a series of transfers made by Kumar to pay for administrative fees and legal costs, including a $150,000 costs order arising from a hearing in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in 2019. On August 9, 2015, Cox died after a short battle with pneumonia. It is alleged that Kumar was not working on the day of his death, but called Cambridge House and demanded a junior staff member search for Cox’s house key before his body was taken to a funeral home.She became the “informant” on his death certificate and obtained a grant of probate from the Supreme Court in November 2015.
State Trustees’ lawyers claim the will was not executed in compliance with legislation and was inconsistent with Cox’s wishes.The Supreme Court’s decision last week to revoke probate comes more than five years after Kumar was banned from being a registered health practitioner for engaging in professional misconduct, following an investigation by the Nursing and Midwifery Board.
Kumar was banned from being a registered health practitioner and from working or volunteering in any sort of aged-care capacity for five years.
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