Litigation
Dec. 29, 2015
Disinherited son receives full $26M
A $26 million inheritance settlement finalized this week concludes five years of litigation on a case of first impression in probate law. Petitioner's counsel Van Dyke & Associates APLC in San Diego turned to Law Finance Group to help shepherd the case through the opposition's attempts to outspend them, partners said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Nearly a decade after his father cut him out of the will and died, firstborn son Thomas W. Sefton, Jr. at age 71 finally received his inheritance of more than $26 million in cash, attorneys said Wednesday.
The five-year legal battle was a case of first impression in probate law that twice went up to the 4th District Court of Appeal, which reversed the lower court's ...
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