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ESTATE OF LEVINE

Docket No. 61981.

125 Cal.App.3d 701 (1981)

178 Cal. Rptr. 275

Estate of PHILLIP LEVINE, Deceased. MURRAY S. LEVINE, Petitioner and Appellant, v. ESTELLE LEVINE, Objector and Respondent.

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

November 16, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joseph W. Fairfield and Robert A. Fairfield for Petitioner and Appellant.

Kenneth S. Wolf for Objector and Respondent.

OPINION

HASTINGS, J.

This case illustrates one of the pitfalls of "how to avoid probate." The appeal concerns a family residence held in joint tenancy although one of the spouses, secretly as it turned out, considered it community property. The court held the property to be joint tenancy and this appeal followed.

Phillip and Estelle Levine were married on January 1, 1974. They had been neighbors for 20 years on Saturn Avenue...

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