Cochems v. Cochems’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “other than the designated *Page 610 devisees and legatees, the necessary conclusion is that the claimant was disinherited by design and not because the testator was oblivious of his existence. That the testator had the claimant in mind and intentionally failed to provide for him is held to be evidenced by language which refers to the exclusion of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Cal. App. 2d 604 - Estate of Lipovsky

2. “. . . .' (26 Cal.Jur. 926, § 239, citing Estate of Hassell, 168 Cal. 287 [ 142 P. 838 ]; Estate of Lindsay, 176 Cal. 238 , 240 [ 168 P. 113 ]; Estate of Minear, 180 Cal. 239 [ 180 P. 535 ]; Estate of Trickett, 197 Cal. 20 [ 239 P. 406 ]; Estate of Lombard, 16 Cal.App.2d 526 [ 60 P.2d 1000 ].)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Cal. App. 2d 604 - Estate of Lipovsky

3. “unless it appears from the will that such omission is intentional.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 54 Cal. 2d 234 - Torregano v. Torregano