OPINION
One hundred years ago our Supreme Court warned that "`[s]uccession to estates is purely a matter of statutory regulation, which cannot be changed by courts'" and that "`[i]t is vain to argue against the injustice of the rule . . . .'" (Estate of De Cigaran (1907) 150 Cal. 682, 688 [89 P. 833].) This rule of law, i.e., strict adherence to the laws of succession, has not changed. (See Estate of Griswold
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