Don’t miss our Probate Litigation 101: The Nuts and Bolts for CA attorneys
Probate Litigation 101: The Nuts and Bolts (CA)
Three-part live webinar | Thursdays, September 10, 17 and 24, 2026 | California | $450 to $635 | Also available OnDemand
Probate litigation runs on its own track, and a skilled civil litigator walking into it for the first time will find that most of the assumptions do not carry over. You file petitions rather than complaints. Notice requirements are statutory and strictly enforced. Standing is contested more often than in ordinary civil practice. Discovery works differently, and so does the path to trial.
This three-part program builds the practice area from the ground up for attorneys coming from civil litigation, and for estate planning attorneys who find themselves in contested matters and want to handle them rather than refer them out.
The program covers the petition practice that drives probate litigation, including Section 850 petitions and the range of relief they can reach. It works through will and trust contests, examining the grounds that succeed, the evidence they require, and how no-contest clauses affect strategy on both sides. It addresses trustee and executor removal and surcharge proceedings, accountings and objections to them, and financial elder abuse claims and how they interact with trust and estate claims.
Throughout, the emphasis is on procedure that is specific to the probate department: which judge hears what, how these matters are actually set and tried, and where the department’s customs differ from the civil courtroom down the hall.
This is a three-part series across three Thursdays, which makes it workable alongside an active caseload.
