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ESTATE OF CLAFFEY

Docket No. G004282.

209 Cal.App.3d 254 (1989)

257 Cal. Rptr. 197

Estate of BESSIE CLAFFEY, Deceased. MONROE THOMAS McKENZIE et al., Claimants and Appellants, v. DOROTHY CREEKS, Claimant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

March 31, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cummings & Kemp and Audrey L. Myer for Claimants and Appellants.

Dirk Van Tatenhove for Claimant and Respondent.

OPINION

SONENSHINE, J.

Monroe Thomas McKenzie and Janet Turner appeal a judgment denying them, as stepchildren of Bessie Claffey, any entitlement to Claffey's estate. They contend the trial court prejudicially erred in instructing the jury to find a "family relationship," rather than a mere stepchild/stepparent relationship, as a prerequisite to their intestate succession.

I

Thomas and Janet are the children of John...

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