A Victorian psychologist who tried to steal millions of dollars from her dead partner\u2019s family by forging a fake will has been jailed.<\/p>\n
Kris Schroder, 61, will spend a minimum of 20 months in jail after she was sentenced to four years by County Court Judge Claire Quin on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Psychologist Kris Schroder has been jailed for creating a fake will she claimed was that of her late partner.<\/span><\/p>\n She was previously found guilty of eight offences by a jury, including attempting to obtain financial advantage by deception, attempting to pervert the course of justice and perjury.<\/p>\n Schroder, from Harkaway in Melbourne\u2019s south-east, tried to inherit her dying partner\u2019s $2.25 million estate by creating a fake will to exclude all other family members as beneficiaries.<\/p>\n Maree Hart died from an aggressive brain cancer in February 2016 and in her will, she left one-third of her estate to Schroder, one-third to her nephew and the final third to her niece.<\/p>\n About two months after her death, Schroder travelled to Thailand where she told two friends she had created another fake will for Hart, dated April 2014, which left everything to her.<\/p>\n Kris Schroder outside court in 2019.<\/span>Credit:<\/span>Joe Armao<\/cite><\/p>\n Kenneth Ewington and Warren Rogan, Schroder\u2019s friends of 40 years, were then told she had forged their signatures onto the false will.<\/p>\n Schroder later asked the pair to sign false affidavits supporting her application for probate in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n She also offered to pay Hart\u2019s niece and nephew $200,000 to drop legal action against the will.<\/p>\n During sentencing, Quin said Schroder\u2019s motivation was either greed or a misguided entitlement to the whole estate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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