Tentative ruling in department H on Aug. 29, 2022 in Marin County, CA - Case no: xxxxx440

DATE: 08/24/22 TIME: 8:30 A.M. DEPT: H CASE NO: FL2100440
PRESIDING: HON. VERNA A. ADAMS
REPORTER: CLERK: STACY BOND.
PETITIONER: KATHLEEN RYAN
BRADY
and
RESPONDENT: VAN WILLIAM BRADY
NATURE OF PROCEEDINGS: MOTION — NOTICE OF MOTION AND DECLARATION
FOR JOINDER [PETR] KATHLEEN BRADY
RULING
Petitioner/Wife’s Request for Order (RFO) for joinder of the William J. & Louise M. Brady
Trust U/A/D 3/13/91 and the associated survivor’s trusts (hereinafter, “the trusts”) is denied.
A dispute about whether or to what extent a person or entity is a creditor of the community, does
not require joinder of that person or entity. If, as Wife contends, the trusts have information
about Husband’s Family Code §2640 claims, her remedy is formal discovery, not joinder.
Joinder is not a condition precedent to pretrial discovery under the Civil Discovery Act (Code of
Civil Procedure §§2016.010 ef seq.). If, as Wife claims, the ….....