Rich Squatter Yael Abraham strikes again – and this time she is accused of forging Wills to grab an estate in the eastern suburbs of Sydney Waard

A rich lawyer who has not abandoned to claim a house owned by a house Sydney‘S Inner West Under Squatter’s Rights has tried to take part of the $ 20 million fortune from another family.

Yael Abraham, 69, is accused of forging the wills of the parents of Sydney -Vrouw Annie Goldberg, Leon and Carol Goldberg, to claim a large part of their estate.

It comes only a few weeks after she has lost her attempt to claim the ownership of two houses in Rozelle.

Abraham had insisted that she had secretly seen there since 2011 – which would give her the right to ownership under squatted laws – while she also owns her own $ 7 million house.

She dropped her claim on one house, but her claim on the second house was rejected by the NSW Supreme Court In March when a judge held doubts about her story and kicked her from the Roselle site.

Now she is back in court while she tries to set up a claim on the Goldbergs estate.

“This is a competition with a very high effort,” Justice Michael Slattery said NSW Supreme Court.

Leon and Carol owned properties in the Blue Mountains, Vaucluse, Dulwich Hill and Ambarvale, which were worth an estimated minimum of $ 20 million.

One of the properties of the Goldbergs was a dilapidated store in Vaucluse that only sold for a breathtaking $ 17.1 million in 2022.

Annie Goldberg was their only child and told NSW Supreme Court that she was the most important beneficiary of their estate among the wills of her mother, who died in 2014, and her father who died in 2020, that she had in her possession.

But Mrs. Abraham claimed that she later had Wills, which Mrs Goldberg left only $ 80 a week from her mother’s estate, where the rest of the estate was signed in the control of Mrs. Abraham.

Mrs. Abrahams also claimed to have a later version of Leon Goldberg’s will who appointed her executrix, gave her $ 250,000 and control over half of the remaining estate on trust for Mrs. Goldberg, after other subdivisions.

Mrs Abraham was not a family member of Mrs. Goldberg’s parents, but she claimed a good friend and confidant of Mr Goldberg, a celebrated criminal lawyer in the court.

Mrs Goldberg, however, is sure that Mrs. Abraham’s Testaments are counterfeits.

The claims of neither parties have been tested during the process.

In July 2013, Carol Goldberg had made a will, built from a will kit, who appointed her husband as her performer and gave him the entire legacy, the court heard.

The will of Mr Goldberg of April 2018 appointed his daughter as his operator and the only beneficiary of his estate.

However, Mrs Abraham claims that Carol made a will at the end of January 2014, shortly before her death earlier that month.

“Controversial in this procedure is only a copy of this will available, not the original,” said Justice Slattery.

The typed document mentions Mrs. Abraham as Carol’s Executrix and reads:

3. I give my daughter Annie Goldberg from [address redacted] The sum of $ 80 PW (per week). I say I don’t want my daughter to lose her disease benefits (sic). Given certain allegations [Ms Goldberg] Makes against me, I make it clear that I fully deny the false accusations she makes. I say she knows what they are. I also say that my daughter must receive a great legacy from her father, Leon Goldberg, and received significant amounts of money from him.

4. I give the balance of my estate to my executrix to keep for life for her daughter with a disability, Christine Alyson Fabrivcato, also known as Alyson Abraham and in the case of her death for me, to her surviving children. ‘

The foot of the 2014 will read a handwritten signature ‘Carol Goldberg’ and Clause that recorded the names of two witnesses, ‘Barry Raymond Thom’ and ‘Zoltan Even Chen Nyti’.

The court noted that it was unclear how Mrs. Abraham came across the Will 2014.

According to Mrs. Abraham, she announced Leon about the Will 2014, but he asked her not to obtain a condition of the probationary period because of the mental capacity of his wife when it was made.

“The version of Mrs. Abraham lets Leon accept her report on how she (Mrs. Abraham) came to the Will 2014,” said Justice Slattery.

In May 2015, Mrs. Abraham claimed, Leon also made a will that appointed her ‘executrix’ who was in charge of his estate.

The typed document, which at some point spelled his name incorrectly like Leong, is:

3. I give the following specific legacies:

(I) At the United Israel Appeal the sum of $ 50,000,

(II) The sum of $ 50,000 at the NSW Friendship Circle,

(iii) to my brother Charles Goldberg my part of [the Blue Mountains property]”

“(IV) To my Executrix Yael Abraham the sum of $ 250,000.”

“Mrs Abraham says she was not involved in the preparation, both from Carol’s 2014 Will of Leon’s 2015 Will,” said Justice Slattery.

‘But Mrs Abraham has not so far provided any evidence about who has prepared these wills.

‘Mrs Abraham was asked at different times to justify the originals of Carol’s 2014 Will and Leon’s 2015 Will.

“She hasn’t produced either. She has made it available what her photocopies are of the original of every will. ‘

In the agreement of both parties, the photocopied documents were examined by handwriting expert Melanie Holt, who delivered her report in July 2023.

“Due to the limited number of available specimen signatures for Carol, Mrs. Holt was unable to draw a conclusion about the signature of the Will 2014 testator, but she observed Anomalies during the Will 2014, who questioned his truthfulness,” said Justice Slattery.

The judge rejected a bid from Mrs. Goldberg to have the case simply reject instead, Mrs Abraham ordered not to continue her unacceptable chaotic behavior of the procedure.

The destructive comment referred to her repeated ‘very disturbing’ failure to appear for hearings and changes from lawyers.

“The procedure was not beaten,” he said.

“But Mrs. Goldberg’s motion has been postponed and can be revived, depending on the further compliance with Mrs Abraham to timetables, instructions and orders from the court with regard to further behavior of the procedure.”

The case will resume in June.

Mrs Abraham is the director of Assetnet properties, who ‘sells, sells, sells and builds throughout Queensland and NSW’, according to the website of the company.

She is described on her own website as ‘lawyer and activist for child and animal rights’.

Mrs Abraham also played in 2009 on ABC’s Australian Story for her work as a foster carer.

Abraham’s previous case

The case came after Mary Willis, the owner of the two houses in Rozelle, in 2023 launched the NSW Supreme Court procedure against Mrs. Abraham and sought the possession of both property.

Mrs Abraham claimed to live in the property since 2011, which would have claimed her ownership according to NSW -functioning laws.

Also known as ‘Squatter’s rights’, the law says that anyone who occupies an abandoned house for at least 12 years without violence or confidentiality can inherit the property.

The lawsuit was initially submitted to the NSW Supreme Court in 2023 and Mrs. Abraham eventually dropped its challenges of ownership of one of the houses last year.

However, she continued with her fight to keep the second home, which was arranged by acting justice Michael Elkaim, who recently ruled in favor of Mrs. Willis.

Justice Elkaim focused on Mrs. Abraham’s timeline and was skeptical about her claims that she had lived in the house since 2011.

He also ruled that Mrs Abraham had not ‘visible’ her presence in the building and that her occupation had until recently been a secret.

Mrs. Abraham, who works as a lawyer and broker in Queensland, initially heard about the abandoned properties through a tip from her brother, which she visited at the end of 2009, the court heard.

She immediately started to store furniture and other items in one of the rose houses after she and her family moved to the area in 2011.

But Justice Elkaim did not agree with Mrs Abraham’s claim that she had occupied the house well, because she only visited it once a month to start cleaning it.

The judge also had the fact that Mrs. Abraham had secretly occupied the property, which was detrimental to the law stating that she had to have lived openly and visibly at the building.

‘[Ms Abraham]deliberately, did not take action to show her profession until much later to the outside world [than 2011]”Said Justice Elkaim.

Justice Elkaim ruled in favor of Mrs. Willis, because the evidence indicated that the occupation of Mrs. Abraham was a ‘possession that was continued by Stealth’.