California Neutrals
Oct. 29, 2015
Relaxing confidentiality in probate cases
By Marty Graham
With a 4-1 vote in August, the California Law Revision Commssion voted to draft legislative language that would create an exception to the mediation and confidentiality statutes (Evid. Code §§ 1115-1128) to address "attorney malpractice and other misconduct."
That news is proving worrisome to mediators and particularly worrisome in trying to resolve probate and divorce disputes, like Ron Kelly, a principal architect of California ADR law and a medi...
With a 4-1 vote in August, the California Law Revision Commssion voted to draft legislative language that would create an exception to the mediation and confidentiality statutes (Evid. Code §§ 1115-1128) to address "attorney malpractice and other misconduct."
That news is proving worrisome to mediators and particularly worrisome in trying to resolve probate and divorce disputes, like Ron Kelly, a principal architect of California ADR law and a medi...
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