California Court of Appeal

In case arising out of a series of acrimonious disputes between the beneficiaries of a revocable trust, probate court's order denying motion to compel further responses to discovery requests is vacated where: 1) petitioner is entitled to conduct discovery relevant to her objections to the Distribution Petition; and 2) she need not file a Probate Code section 850 petition to establish her entitlement to an offset against real party's share of the trust estate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/22/2007
• Published 10/23/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David E. Rosenbaum, Pasadena, for Petitioner., Tredway, Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP, Mark C. Doyle and Roy J. Jimenez, Downey, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.