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Hi, this is Stewart Albertson with Albertson & Davidson and I want to talk to you just briefly about three important sets of documents that we need to get quickly in any type of trust or will contest.  So this happens

The most important interrogatory in California is Form Interrogatory 15.1. Propound it; meet and confer on it; file motions to compel on it. Make them give you their facts, witnesses, and documents supporting their denials and affirmative defenses. Form Interrogatory 15.1 is the great equalizer in California trust and probate litigation.

I’m still amazed when defense attorneys direct their clients not to answer my questions during a deposition where no privilege exists. In other words, the defense attorney simply assumes the role of judge and decides what questions their client will and will not answer. Of course, the defense attorney instructs their client not to answer