We recently filed a petition for guardianship of a minor. The grandmother requested guardianship of the person of her grandson. The minor’s father had died, and the 8-year-old minor was living with his mother in Fresno. Our client had substantial contact with the minor before his father died, but was cut off from all contact …
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Part of a continuing update regarding the time needed to obtain a hearing in the Fresno Probate Court. We just filed a petition for distribution from a decedent’s estate, all cash, three heirs. Filed on January 21, 2025, set for hearing July 9, 2025 (169 days). What was it like in the past? We filed …
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We filed a petition to distribute an estate on January 8, 2025. The assets are all cash, there are no creditors, and the estate will be divided equally between two siblings. The court assigned the matter for hearing on June 18, 2025. That’s a long time to wait — 161 days, by my count.
California is the largest consumer of alternative diesel fuels in the United States. A recent study published by the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics discusses U.S. imports of used cooking oil. The authors explain as follows: “Clean fuel programs like California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard have driven a boom in the consumption …
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We recently filed a Petition to Determine Succession to Real Property in Madera County and one in Fresno County. The Madera case was submitted for filing on October 2, 2024. The assigned hearing date for the Madera case is November 18, 2024. It takes 47 days to get a probate hearing in Madera. On the …
The Fresno probate court was formerly very prompt. You could submit a petition and receive a hearing date within six to eight weeks. Everything moved right along. Not now. On February 7, 2023, we filed a petition to distribute an estate to two heirs. The heirs waived the accounting, and the estate is all cash, …
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The first principle of mediation is that parties work to find a resolution on terms that are mutually acceptable. In mediation, nobody orders the parties what to do: the parties control the outcome. This is referred to as the principle of self-determination, and it is embodied in California Rules of Court, rule 3.853, which states …
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The recent decision in Pulte Homes Corporation v. Williams Mechanical, Inc. (Aug. 9, 2016) 2 Cal.App.5th 267 was arose from a claim by Pulte for “$69,576 based on Williams’s allegedly negligent performance of a subcontract for the installation of plumbing in two residential construction projects.” The advance sheets contained the entire opinion. When the decision …
The law of payment systems has interested this writer for many years. It is an area of law filled with arcane and technical rules, most of which are never encountered in day-to-day transactions, and that’s why is important to have professionals to help you with this, Legal Riordan Lawyer Canberra has proven excellence in legal …
There’s an old saying – “You can’t fight city hall.” In the case of a homeowners association, the saying should be, “You can’t afford to fight a homeowners association.” Because the deck is stacked against the homeowner. In the recent case of Rancho Mirage Country Club Homeowners Ass’n v. Thomas B. Hazelbaker (Aug. 8, 2016) …