Trusts and Estates
Ca. Trs. & Estates Quarterly 2021, Volume 27, Issue 3
Content
- Chairs of Section Subcommittees
- Editorial Board
- From the Chair
- From the Editor-in-chief
- Inside this Issue:
- Let's Get Digital! Esi In Trust and Estate Litigation, Part II
- Post Mortem of Proposition 19: the Covid-19 of the Estate Planning World
- Tips of the Trade: Brace Yourself: Why In re Brace May Prove 2020'S Most Significant Non-probate, Non-trust Case For California Probate and Estate Planning Practitioners
- Whose Money Is It Anyway? Making Cents of the California Uniform Principal and Income Act
- Litigation Alert
LITIGATION ALERT
By Jeremiah J. Moffit, Esq.,* Courtney A. Sorensen, Esq.* Craig S. Weinstein, Esq.*, and Sara Z. May, Esq.*
I. A COURT HAS POWER TO ORDER PARTIES TO MEDIATION AND A TRUST BENEFICIARY WHO RECEIVES NOTICE OF COURT-ORDERED MEDIATION BUT DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IS BOUND BY THE RESULT OF THE MEDIATION
Breslin v. Breslin (2021) 62 Cal.App.5th 801
The Second District Court of Appeal held that a trust beneficiary, who receives notice of court-ordered mediation but fails to participate in the mediation, is bound by the result.