California Court of Appeal

A beneficiary to a will has a cause of action against an attorney who negligently failed to advise the testator that the intended beneficiary would be presumptively disqualified unless the testator obtained a Certificate of Independent Review from another attorney.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2004
• Published 11/22/2004

Judges

• WALSH, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Fulton, Cartwright, Fulton & Adams, Santa Cruz, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Louis H. Castoria, Debra S. Blum, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent.