Victoria J. Haneman has posted on SSRN her article entitled 120 Hours Until the Consistent Treatment of Simultaneous Death Under the California Probate Code. An abstract of the article is below: The ...

Depending on the nature of any given asset, there are ways to avoid probate. Probate is the process of managing and distributing someone’s assets after they have died. For someone who dies with a will ...

Effective April 1, 2025, Assembly Bill 2016 (AB 2016) creates a new probate shortcut allowing primary residences in California, if certain conditions are met, to pass to the decedent’s ...

Hugh O'Brian, best known for his role as Wyatt Earp in the 1950's ABC Western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, died in September 2016. In Rallo v. O'Brian, the Court of Appeal of ...