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ESTATE OF PARSONS

Docket No. 47218.

103 Cal.App.3d 384 (1980)

163 Cal. Rptr. 70

Estate of GENEVE LUCY ANGELA SHAFFER PARSONS, Deceased. MARIE M. GOWER, as Co-executor, etc., et al., Petitioners and Respondents, v. ROGER WINELANDER et al., Objectors and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

March 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Steven H. Herman, Rudy, Rapoport & Holden and Everett E. Power for Objectors and Appellants.

Thomas J. Williams for Petitioners and Respondents.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

(1a) This case requires us to determine whether a subscribing witness to a will who is named in the will as a beneficiary becomes "disinterested" within the meaning of Probate Code section 51 by filing a disclaimer of her interest after the testatrix' death. While our own policy preferences tempt us to an affirmative answer, we feel constrained by existing law to hold that a disclaimer is ineffective...

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