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Oct 26, 2017 Alana H. Rotter Anti-SLAPP Law, Probate and Trusts
Anti-SLAPP motions in probate? Alana Rotter explains a new decision applying the anti-SLAPP statute to petitions to enforce a no-contest clause.

Litigators are used to seeing anti-SLAPP motions in civil cases.  But a new California Court of Appeal decision highlights that anti-SLAPP motions are also an option in the probate context, to challenge a petition to enforce a will or trust’s no-contest clause.  Alana Rotter discusses that decision, along with a short primer on the anti-SLAPP statute, in a column on the front page of the October 26, 2017 Daily Journal.