Legal Opinion
Oliveira v. Kiesler
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 15, 2012No. G045721PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOORE, J.
A widow sued her stepsons, a law firm, a lawyer, and a paralegal, over an estate plan that purportedly divested her of the 50 percent share of the marital estate that she would have received from her husband as the surviving joint tenant of the properties they held together in joint tenancy. The estate plan served to sever all of the joint tenancies and transfer the husband’s 50 percent share in the properties to a trust for the benefit of the two stepsons, to the exclusion of the widow.
Before trial, the widow settled with the stepsons. After a jury awarded the widow $200,000…
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