Aug 28, 2026 – 5.00amThe will that 92-year-old Wilma Annette Pusterla made just weeks before she died in 2023 was simple and clear – everything she owned was to be left to her stepson, Philip Jeffrey Beaumont Smith.The problem was, while she had signed it and shown she understood it, it was nothing like any of the five wills she had written in the years before.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andrew HobbsWealth reporterAndrew Hobbs covers self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), financial planning, retirement, inheritance, tax, personal finance and, sometimes, the Perth Bears. He has been a financial journalist for 30 years, previously at Bloomberg and AAP.Fetching latest articles
Wilma left $3m to her stepson. A judge ruled it ‘suspicious’
Wilma Pusterla was 92 and blind when her stepson had her sign a will leaving everything to him, in stark contrast to her five previous wills.
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