Blog Posts in Intestacy

A pretermitted heir is a person who would likely stand to inherit under a will or trust , except that the person who wrote the will (testator) or trust (settlor) did not know, or did not know of, the ...

Under the California Probate Code, an omitted spouse is a surviving spouse that was unintentionally disinherited under a will or trust that was executed prior to marriage. The law provides for the ...

To continue our blog on the Estate of Redfield (193 Cal. App. 4 th 1526 (2011)), Nancy Horan (petitioner and appellant) appealed the trial court's decision to reopen the final judgment of the probate ...

As we discussed in our previous blog, the California Court of Appeal used the doctrine of res judicata to overturn a judgment made by the trial court to re-open a case that was already dismissed with ...

The doctrine of res judicata bars respondents from re-litigating a case that has already been adjudicated. Res judicata is the Latin term for "a matter already judged." It means that if there has been ...

In the Estate of Beckel, Doralee Verna Beckel (decedent) died without a will (intestate). Doralee had no surviving spouse, children, parents or siblings; therefore, according to the laws of intestate ...