ESTATE OF VARGAS

Docket No. 41800.

36 Cal.App.3d 714 (1974)

111 Cal. Rptr. 779

Estate of JUAN ABLE VARGAS, JR., Deceased. MILDRED VARGAS, Petitioner and Appellant, v. JOSEPHINE VARGAS, Claimant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

January 14, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ronald L. Katsky, Peter H. Kruse and Lawrence Earl Logue for Petitioner and Appellant.

Ervin M. Roeder, N.E. Youngblood and Barry T. Harlan for Claimant and Respondent.


OPINION

FLEMING, J.

For 24 years Juan Vargas lived a double life as husband and father to two separate families, neither of which knew of the other's existence. This terrestial paradise came to an end in 1969 when Juan died intestate in an automobile accident. In subsequent heirship proceedings the probate court divided his estate equally between the two wives. (1a) Juan's first wife Mildred appeals, contending that the...

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