Legal Opinion
Fong v. Westly
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 11, 2004No. C042007PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
NICHOLSON, J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment against their claims for monetary and equitable relief arising from the custodial escheat of stock shares they owned. We affirm.
STATUTORY BACKGROUND
Under the Unclaimed Property Law, certain types of unclaimed property escheats to the state. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1500 et seq.; all undesignated references to sections are to the Code of Civil Procedure.) The law has two objectives: (1) protect unknown property owners by locating them and restoring their property to them, and (2) give the state, rather than the owners of the unclaimed property,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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3Cited by21 opinions
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