Trusts and Estates
Ca. Trs. & Estates Quarterly 2015, Volume 21, Issue 2
Content
- A Primer For California Art Collectors
- Chairs of Section Subcommittees
- Editorial Staff
- Establishing a Conservatorship Based Upon Undue Influence: a Practitioner's Guide
- From the Chair
- From the Editor-in-chief
- Inside this Issue:
- The Uncertain Future of Estate Planning For Digital Assets In California
- Litigation Alert
LITIGATION ALERT
By Mary F. Gillick, Esq.,* Catherine M. Swafford, Esq.,*and Matthew R. Owens, Esq.*
UNAMBIGUOUS WILL MAY BE REFORMED IF CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE ESTABLISHES MISTAKE AND ALSO ESTABLISHES SETTLOR’S SPECIFIC INTENT
Estate of Duke (2015) 61 Cal.4th 871
The California Supreme Court held an unambiguous will may be reformed if clear and convincing evidence establishes the will contains a mistake in the expression of settlor’s intent at the time the will was drafted and also establishes settlor’s specific intent.