Legal Opinion
Estate of Larkin
California Supreme Court
Decided August 2, 1966No. L. A. 27652; L. A. 27653PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTobriner, J.
The present eases, consolidated for appeal, require us to construe and apply section 259 of the Probate Code which restricts the freedom of Californians to leave their property to nonresident aliens. That statute makes the validity of such gifts conditional upon the existence of reciprocal rights, on the part of United States citizens, to share without discrimination in estates governed by the law of the foreign beneficiary’s own country.
The beneficiaries in the present eases are citizens and residents of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). In both cases the trial court…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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