California Court of Appeal

In an action involving the removal of a trustee of a life insurance trust established to provide for petitioner's son and his brother, trial court's orders denying respondent-trustee's objections, approving a third guardianship accounting petition, and ordering trustee to pay petitioner compensatory damages in the amount of $77,573.40 is affirmed as trial court did not abuse its discretion in overruling trustee's objections, nor in finding unreasonable and bad-faith assertion of meritless objections in awarding the compensatory damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/30/2009
• Published 09/30/2009

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• WealthPLAN, Frances B. Doyle, Attorneys for Objector and Appellant, James Valentine.


• For Appellees:
  
• Law offices of Kenneth C. Moore, Kenneth C. Moore, Cupertino, Law Offices of John H. Coward, John H. Coward, Los Gatos, Attorneys for Petitioner and Respondent, Hal S.