WILLIAMS v. SNOW HUME
Filed 5/10/06
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION THREE
| CONSERVATORSHIP OF THE PERSON AND ESTATE OF EDWARD S. HUME, SR. | |
| JOHN S. WILLIAMS, as Public Guardian etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. WILLIAM SNOW HUME, Objector and Appellant, | G035599 (Super. Ct. No. A219295) O P I N I O N |
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, Thomas H. Schulte, Temporary Judge. (Pursuant to Cal. Const., art. VI, § 21.). Reversed and remanded.
William Snow Hume, in pro. per., for Objector and Appellant.
Benjamin P. de Mayo, County Counsel, and James C. Harvey, Deputy County Counsel for Petitioner and Respondent.
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I. BACKGROUND
William Snow Hume has appealed from the order of the trial court approving a final accounting by the county public guardian as conservator for Hume's now-deceased father.[1] His main complaint, and one which we must conclude is well-taken, is that the accounting failed to include his father's interests in certain real property in Tennessee.[2]
There is no question that the conservatee actually did own real property in Tennessee -- the public guardian's accounting in fact listed the conservatee's one-half community interest in crop rents received from the property. Those rents didn't just fall off a pear tree. They were derived from a substantial asset owned by the conservatee.
Hume's own interest, as he voiced toward the end of the trial court hearing on the accounting, is that he is afraid that certain siblings are in possession of an â€
