Johnson v. Greenelsh

Supreme Court of California · Decided 2009-10-29

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Opinion CORRIGAN, J. Here we conclude that a challenge to a surviving spouse’s mental capacity to transfer trust assets and appoint a successor trustee did not violate the no contest clause in a family trust. A proceeding contesting a settlor’s mental competence to exercise rights under a trust does not amount to an attack on the trust itself, unless it seek…

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