Legal Opinion
Strauss v. Summerhays
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 26, 1984No. Civ. 30471PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WALLIN, J.
Alta Strauss appeals a superior court judgment declaring decedent Christine E. Melcher’s Leisure World residence to be an asset of an irrevocable trust and thus not subject to testamentary disposition. Strauss contends: (1) she was improperly denied a jury trial; (2) there was a failure to join an indispensable party; and (3) transfer of the residence to the irrevocable trust was legally impossible due to restrictions imposed by Leisure World.
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Christine E. Melcher executed a will on July 14, 1979. On October 4, 1979, she signed an irrevocable trust (the trust) prepared by…
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