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ESTATE OF FURIA

No. A097519.

126 Cal.Rptr.2d 384 (2002)

103 Cal.App.4th 1

ESTATE OF Amelia FURIA, Deceased. Irene Poli, as Executor, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. Nanette Ann Furia Cameron, Claimant and Appellant.

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

October 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shapiro, Galvin, Shapiro, Piasta & Moran and Daniel J. Galvin III, Santa Rosa, for Petitioner and Respondent.

Steve H. Spiegelman, for Claimant and Appellant.

GEMELLO, J.

Does an equitably adopted child have a right to inherit the property of her testate "grandparent," whose will directs that her property shall go to the "surviving issue" of her own children? We hold that she does not. The doctrine of equitable adoption creates a contractual right to receive property, but it does not convey to the equitable child all the rights of an heir under the Probate Code. The trial court denied Nanette Ann Furia Cameron's heirship...

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