JOHN S. WILLIAMS v. WILLIAM SNOW HUME
Filed 6/29/06
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 LAURA SNOW AUSTON HUME. | |
| JOHN S. WILLIAMS, as Public Guardian, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. WILLIAM SNOW HUME, Objector and Appellant. | G036141 (Super. Ct. No. A219294) O P I N I O N |
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, Gerald G. Johnston, Judge. Affirmed.
William Snow Hume, in pro. per., for Objector and Appellant.
Benjamin P. de Mayo, County Counsel, and James C. Harvey, Deputy County Counsel for Conservator and Respondent.
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We publish this case to make explicit what is otherwise implicit in the statute dealing with objections to inventories and accountings in conservatorship proceedings (Prob. Code, § 2614[1]) -- namely that the burden of proof is on the objector to the inventory and accounting, not on the conservator.
The facts are simple: The Orange County Public Guardian was appointed
conservator of Laura Snow Auston Hume sometime prior to June 2004. In June 2004 the public guardian filed a final inventory and appraisal of Laura's estate. One of her children, William Snow Hume, filed objections.[2] A hearing was held, and the trial court entered an order overruling the objections and â€
