Conservatorship of Tobias

Opinion

MERRILL, J.

This appeal is from the trial court’s order setting aside certain portions of previous orders settling the 10th and 11th accounts of the former conservator, appellant Margaret I. Heaps. The primary contention raised by Heaps is that the trial court was without authority to grant respondent Cynthia Tobias’s motion to vacate the orders pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure 1 section 473. We affirm.

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Heaps was the conservator of the person and estate of her son, James Paul Tobias, from 1973 until December 1986. In late 1986 she discovered that her investment counselor had…