ESTATE OF GOULET

Docket No. S042636.

10 Cal.4th 1074 (1995)

898 P.2d 425

43 Cal. Rptr.2d 111

Estate of DONALD R. SCOTT GOULET, Deceased. JOHN J. FERRY, as Executor, etc., et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. ESTHER MONTELLO GOULET, Claimant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

July 31, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kay & Merkle, Alan J. Silver, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John A. Ruskey, Gary M. Joye and Geraldine A. Wyle for Petitioners and Appellants.

Gross, Gross & Simon, Marvin Gross, Mitchell, Silbeberg & Knupp, Allan B. Cutrow, John L. Segal and Linda J. Byrne for Claimant and Respondent.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

Has a trustee the right to appeal an order determining that a trust beneficiary's proposed claim would not violate the trust's no contest clause? For the following reasons, we conclude the trustee does. Accordingly, we reverse the Court of Appeal, which held to the contrary.

Background1

On August 23, 1992, Donald...

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