Petitioners allege, inter alia, that settlor's 10/5/12 trust restatement was signed without capacity and through undue influence. To convey this message, the petition unnecessarily adopts the format and tenor of a civil complaint.
Respondent Jesse Baxter, has objected through what appears to be a line-by-line verified answer to a civil complaint.
This is a Probate Code §17200 petition. This is not the civil court. To make §17200 petitions and objections understandable to lay beneficiaries, they can be alleged in plain English and can be objected to in plain English, without the need for stilted forms of traditional civil pleading and practice.
Petitioners filed two petitions, under separate case numbers, involving the same parties but separate trust instruments. Both cases are consolidated for all purposes into 2014-00448271 by the court, sua sponte. Mr. Bronshteyn is directed to file and serve a single, consolidated petition by 4/15/14 that integrates both "cases" and the underlying m
Hearing Date
March 20, 2014
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Petitioners allege, inter alia, that settlor's 10/5/12 trust restatement was signed without capacity and through undue influence. To convey this message, the petition unnecessarily adopts the format and tenor of a civil complaint.
Respondent Jesse Baxter, has objected through what appears to be a line-by-line verified answer to a civil complaint.
This is a Probate Code §17200 petition. This is not the civil court. To make §17200 petitions and objections understandable to lay beneficiaries, they can be alleged in plain English and can be objected to in plain English, without the need for stilted forms of traditional civil pleading and practice.
Petitioners filed two petitions, under separate case numbers, involving the same parties but separate trust instruments. Both cases are consolidated for all purposes into 2014-00448271 by the court, sua sponte. Mr. Bronshteyn is directed to file and serve a single, consolidated petition by 4/15/14 that integrates both "cases" and the underlying m