Secret son sues for share of cricket legend Dean Jones’s estate
Koby Hamilton, the 11-year-old love child of late cricket legend Dean Jones, is suing for a part of his estate.
Koby Hamilton, the 11-year-old son of late cricket legend Dean Jones, is suing the sporting hero’s widow for a part of the estate, more than a year after his father’s death.
Koby has launched a Supreme Court action against Jane Jones 13 months after his father was found dead in a Mumbai hotel, The Herald Sun reports.
While court documents say the precise value of Jones’s estate is “yet to be determined”, Koby’s mother, Kerri-Anne Hamilton, said Jones’s will had been made in 2012 and did not make “adequate provision” for her son. In 2010, as rumours of an affair circulated, Jones was forced to confess to a decade-long relationship with Ms Hamilton, a flight attendant he met in the 1990s.
“Following an on-and-off relationship with a woman, a child was conceived and subsequently delivered,” Ms Jones told The Herald Sun. “I can confirm I have supported the mother and child more generously than was agreed. At no stage have I not met my obligations. My immediate aim is to seek the forgiveness and understanding of family.”
A motion filed in the court earlier in October stated that Jones “had a moral duty and responsibility” to include his son in his will. “The distribution of the deceased’s estate in accordance with the deceased’s will is such as to not make adequate provision for the proper maintenance and support of (Koby),” it read.
Koby is requesting the court order Ms Jones, as executor of her husband’s will, to give him a share of his father’s estate, and rule that his legal costs also be paid from the estate.
The Daily Telegraph reported that Ms Hamilton said Jones did not meet Koby until he was two but after that they were both very much in each other’s lives. She said Koby had last spoken to his father two days before his death.
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