Hajnal Ban fails to stop payment from dead mentor's estate to Public Trustee Hajnal Ban at the Supreme Court today. FORMER Logan City councillor Hajnal Ban has failed to stop the Public Trustee being paid about $146,000 out of the estate of her dead mentor, who made her a beneficiary of his will. Ms Ban is named as a beneficiary in a January 5, 2009 will, which may be contested as the final will of the man, who died in August last year, the Supreme Court has heard. Ms Ban's friend and mentor, who cannot be named, left her a Greenbank property, jewellery and most of his belongings in that will. While Ms Ban, her brother and parents also were left shares from the sale of a Park Ridge property under the will, it was sold well before the man's death, the court heard today. Justice John Byrne was told Ms Ban's relatives therefore were no longer beneficiaries. Three sons of the dead man have applied for a share of their late father's estate in a separate application. Ms Ban today told Justice Byrne that she was separated from her husband Sean Black, also a former Logan councillor, and he was soon to be her ex-husband. The court heard that Ms Ban's late mentor and friend made a number of wills. Barrister Anthony Collins, for the Public Trustee, told Justice Byrne there could be a dispute about his testamentary capacity at the time of the alleged final January 5, 2009 will. It named former barrister Gregory Sowden as executor, but the court was told Mr Sowden did not wish to act in that capacity until after probate had been granted. Mr Collins asked for monies owed to the Public Trustee, including legal expenses, rates and insurance paid for the man's properties, to be paid to it out of the estate. He said the Public Trustee had been appointed administrator of the estate while the man was alive and acted as his litigation guardian in court cases involving Ms Ban and her husband, for which it had not been paid. Five costs orders, totalling $285,878, remain unpaid, according to court documents filed by Jennifer Waldon, lawyer for the Public Trustee. Ms Ban's opposed the order sought today by the Public Trustee. However Justice Byrne ordered that about $146,000 worth of litigation and administration expenses be paid to the Public Trustee from the man's estate. In 2011 Supreme Court Justice David Boddice found that Ms Ban should not have transferred $1.37 million of the elderly man's funds into her own account in late 2009. In September last year Justice Boddice found Ms Ban was not entitled to use $849,732 she had withdrawn from his bank account, including money transferred for her own or her husband's use. In a separate recently-filed court application, Ms Ban has asked a judge to order the body of her mentor to be exhumed for an autopsy and inquest, saying she believes his death was suspicious.