Legal Opinion
Wells Fargo Bank v. Keresey
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 22, 1991No. Docket Nos. H006185, H006532PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, J.
Under Probate Code sections 2580 through 2586 a superior court may, upon the petition of any interested person and after consideration of all relevant circumstances, authorize or require a conservator to take actions of various kinds with respect to the conservatorship estate. In essence the statute permits the court to substitute its judgment for that of a conservatee.
Wells Fargo Bank (the Bank) is the conservator of the estate of Marcia Farrell Hart, an elderly person afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. In June 1989, when Hart’s conservatorship estate was valued…
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