Editing Universal Medicine (section)

===Estate of Judith McIntyre===
In December 2015, Benhayon appeared at the [[Supreme Court of NSW]] when his sizeable inheritance from the estate of devotee Judith McIntyre was challenged by her children. The breast cancer victim's estate was estimated to be worth $1.1 million, $600,000 of which was intended for Serge Benhayon. A further gift of $800,000 was given to Benhayon by McIntyre three days after executing her will. Justice James Stevenson declined to alter the distribution of the estate and issued a ruling stating that Ms McIntyre "appears to have carefully considered how she should dispose of her estate".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/cancer-victims-children-lose-appeal-to-overturn-will-which-bequeathed-majority-of-11m-estate-to-healer/news-story/ebe4db1a431eec20a02844a35d6b9e9d |title=Cancer victim's children lose appeal to overturn will which bequeathed majority of $1.1m estate to healer |last1=Dale |first1=Amy |date=29 December 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref><ref name=":33"/> Prior to her death, UM followers had established themselves as Ms McIntyre's nurse, housemate, financial planner, the witness to her will, the lawyer who drafted it and its executor.<ref name=":21"/><ref name=":37"/> Benhayon's solicitor acted for both the benefactor and the beneficiary.<ref name=":46">{{Cite news |url=https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/cult-leaders-lawyer-to-be-investigated-over-her-be/3786793/ |title='Cult' leader's lawyer to be investigated over her behaviour |last=Turner |first=Liana |date=23 July 2019 |work=Northern Star |location=NSW |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In a later unrelated trial, a NSW Supreme Court jury found it was substantially true to say that Benhayon "preys on", "swindles" and "exploits cancer patients by targeting them to leave him bequests in their wills" and that he exercised "undue influence" on Ms McIntyre to inherit the bulk of her million-dollar estate.<ref name=":18">{{Cite news |url=https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/revealed-what-the-jury-said-about-socially-harmful/3553783/ |title=REVEALED: What the jury said about 'socially harmful cult' |last=Turner |first=Liana |date=19 October 2018 |work=Northern Star |location=NSW |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":12"/><ref name=":21"/>

Years after the court case, Judith McIntyre's daughter Sarah released her mother's emails that were ruled inadmissible by the court in 2015.<ref name=":22"/> Sent during the last few months of her life, they showed Benhayon coaching her dying mother on how to restrict her children's share of her fortune, where he claimed that her children were "trying to destabilise you, trying to evoke your sympathy", which was "an attack on the funds that will help The Hierarchy's work on Earth".<ref name="charlatan"/><ref name=":37"/> Benhayon also warned her against publicly revealing donations because evil spirits known as "the Dark Lodge" could "cause serious harm" to donors. Theologian and minister David Millikan says the emails "reek of coercion, they are very unseemly for a person who is in that sort of powerful position pastorally over the woman who's dying".<ref name=":22"/><ref name="AWW"/> Shortly before her death, Judith had been persuaded by UM staff to appear in a video blaming herself for her breast cancer, saying: "I had created the disease by all my self neglect, my choices". Daughter Sarah said: "I think my mother was scared for what might happen to her in the afterlife if she didn't give him (Benhayon) the money".<ref name=":37"/>

In June 2018, [[Lucy McCallum|Justice McCallum]], of the Supreme Court of NSW, ordered Benhayon to produce photographs and videos of workshops or sessions that relate to the technique of "Deeper Femaleness" which display the "hands on" healing technique practised by Universal Medicine. He was also ordered to produce a list of donations received, tax returns and other financial statements. This pre-trial ruling came as part of the defamation case in which Benhayon attempted to sue blogger, Esther Rockett, for defamation.<ref name=":10">{{cite news |url=https://lawyerly.com.au/judge-orders-spiritual-guru-produce-pics-hands-healing/ |title=Judge orders spiritual guru to produce pics of 'hands on' healing |last=Fredenburgh |first=Cat |date=21 June 2018 |work=Lawyerly |publisher=Lawyerly Media |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/spiritual-healer-serge-benhayon-gave-client-ovarian-reading-20180624-p4znf9.html |title=Spiritual healer Serge Benhayon gave client 'ovarian reading' |last=McClymont |first=Kate |authorlink=Kate McClymont |date=24 June 2018 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625075356/https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/spiritual-healer-serge-benhayon-gave-client-ovarian-reading-20180624-p4znf9.html |archive-date=25 June 2018 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}</ref>