Capacity Case Illustrates Witness Weight

By Doug Chalgian on February 18, 2019

  This unpublished opinion provides an opportunity to discuss the types of witnesses that are often involved in lack of capacity and undue influence cases, and how they...

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Published Opinion: No Immunity for Retained Expert

By Doug Chalgian on January 5, 2019

This question could have come up in some other type of case, but it came up in a probate case and that case is published, so I’ll write...

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Great Facts and Experts Can’t Survive Summary

By Doug Chalgian on November 22, 2018

An unpublished opinion today that looks at the question of when expert opinions are sufficient to create a question of fact, versus when they remain mere speculation; in...

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Doug Chalgian

About The Author: Doug Chalgian

I am an estate planning, probate litigating, elder law attorney. This is a blog for clients and professional colleagues. In it I offer my ideas about the state of the law and the practice of law. I believe we are living through a unique period during which the law (which is traditionally slow to change) and society are attempting to evolve to address the explosion of people living long lives. I find these developments fascinating and enjoy being involved in this evolution.