Perspective
Jun. 17, 2015
Some civil litigants should be dying to get to probate court
Although a certain procedure is most often invoked when a trust or estate brings such an action against a beneficiary - its use, and those who may utilize it, is not so limited. By James A. Steele
During my career as a business and real estate lawyer before joining the bench, I
would have been hard pressed to spell the word "probate." Before ultimately being
assigned to a probate court, I was equally unfamiliar with the extraordinary but little
known tools available to civil litigators found within the Probate Code. One such
potent tool is the "850 petition."...
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