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Who Cannot Be A Personal Representative During A California Probate Administration? What is Conservatorship?

By: Scott Grossman
April 10th, 2018

A personal representative is someone who is entrusted to carry out the administration of a California estate. This role comes with several significant responsibilities, including managing the estate assets, providing notice to creditors and heirs, and distributing the estate property.

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Probate | Probate Litigation | Trust Litigation |

I want to hire an attorney but my co-trustee doesn’t want me to hire an attorney. What can I do?

By: Scott Grossman
April 3rd, 2018

Each co-trustee has the right to hire their own attorney.  The California Probate Code (which is the law that governs trusts) provides each trustee, or co-trustee, to hire their own lawyer.  The other co-trustee has no right or ability to stop his fellow co-trustee from hiring his or her own probate lawyer.

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