Vanessa Amorosi, an Australian performer, is suing her mother to recover possession of two homes she purchased during her heyday.
On Tuesday, the 42-year-old singer-songwriter made an in-person appearance in the Victorian Supreme Court, where her attorney presented the case against Joyleen Robinson, her mother.
The rivalry, according to Barrister Philip Solomon KC, was centered on two properties: Amorosi’s current residence in California and a property in Narre Warren, in southeast Melbourne.
Robinson established two trusts in 1999, the court was informed, when Amorosi was at the pinnacle of her career and approximately eighteen years old.
In her legal battle with her mother, Vanessa Amorosi is scheduled to face a cross-examination. All of Amorosi’s earnings from her tours and sales, or roughly $1.3 million in 2001, went to one of the trusts.
According to Solomon, the trust’s approximately $464,000 was utilized in 2001 to buy a brand-new Narre Warren family house. Amorosi and Robinson are still registered as joint proprietors of the eight-hectare property, but the singer wants to possess more than half of it or all of it.
Amorosi also wants to be the sole owner of the California house that her mother’s second trust was used to buy.
The Californian property had a mortgage, but Solomon added that Amorosi was prepared to assume the obligation as well.
“These were structures set up for her benefit at a time in her career where she was extraordinarily successful and young,” he stated in court.
“If different structures would have been set up there wouldn’t be a controversy 22 years later.”
The singer filed the civil lawsuit for the first time in 2021, but the court was informed that tensions between Amorosi and her mother began in 2015.
Solomon pointed out that Robinson asserts that she and her daughter had a verbal arrangement over the Narre Warren land.
He stated that he wanted to see Robinson’s explanation of the agreement during her cross-examination, without going into specifics about what it included.
Solomon told the court, “It’s a matter of regret and disappointment that her mother has done to her what has occurred.” “It’s always vexing for a family dispute to play out in court.”
On Tuesday morning, Robinson requested that the trial be vacated, but Justice Steven Moore turned down her request.
After Amorosi is cross-examined on Thursday, she is scheduled to provide testimony later in the week.
