FINKBEINER v. GAVID

No. B180104.

39 Cal.Rptr.3d 871 (2006)

136 Cal.App.4th 1417

Tami FINKBEINER, as Trustee, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Richard GAVID et al., Defendants and Respondents.

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

As Modified February 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benny Hans Freund, N. Hollywood, Lascher & Lascher and Wendy Cole Lascher, Ventura, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

No appearance for Defendants and Respondents.


GILBERT, P.J.

Here we hold a trustee of an inter vivos trust may appear in court in propria persona to modify and terminate the trust.

Tami Finkbeiner, successor trustee of the 1995 Pauline Gavid Trust (hereafter "the trust") appeals the order denying her in propria persona petition to modify and terminate the trust. We conclude, among other things, that the court erred by ruling that Finkbeiner, as a trustee of the trust, had to be represented by counsel...

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