Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Murphy
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 26, 2008No. A115177PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMONS, J.
Pursuant to Probate Code section 2580 et seq., 1 a person subject to a conservatorship may invoke the jurisdiction of the probate court to execute a testamentary instrument. The probate court has discretion, circumscribed by the statutory scheme, to order a “substituted judgment” that authorizes a conservator on behalf of a conservatee to take necessary or desirable action to facilitate estate planning, when a reasonably prudent person in the conservatee’s position would do so. In 2003, the probate court issued such an order on behalf of William J. Murphy, 2 the father of the…
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