Estate of O'Connor v. O'Connor

*161In the last years of her mother's life, daughter Kelli Anne Parille visited on a near daily basis, scheduling her mother's caregiving and hospital transportation. She also assisted with various business affairs, including opening a joint bank account with her mother. The issue on appeal is one courts have long grappled with-when an elderly person with a joint bank account dies, do the funds belong to the decedent's estate or do they belong to the additional signer as a co-owner of the account? Under California law, "[s]ums remaining on deposit at the death of a party to a joint account belong…