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Riverside County probate court is not the only one backed up

Posted on Feb 10, 2009

Probate courts in Florida are backing up just like the Riverside County probate courts.  Florida has experienced an increase in civil litigation which has spilled over and slowed down its probate courts.  In Riverside County we have experienced a combination of having too few judges for our population and a district attorney's office that seems to believe every case it charges should go to trial.  These forces have caused probate litigation, along with all civil cases, to be inordinately delayed.

As a Riverside probate lawyer I have experienced first hand the delay in getting cases to trial.  Walking through the Riverside or Indio courthouse you see large numbers of jurors waiting to be called into their courtrooms to decide criminal cases.  Unfortunately, this is in the civil courthouses which shouldn't be hearing criminal cases.  Probate lawyers are being told by the presiding judge in civil court that no cases are being sent to trial without the parties first engaging in some form of alternative dispute resolution.  In a recent trust contest and will contest case I tried the judge wouldn't even set a trial date because our case wasn't "old enough" and lots of older cases had a priority to get to trial.

California, like Florida, would benefit from some form of dedicated court funding.  The Riveride County probate courts, the cases they hear, the parties involved, and every Riverside probate lawyer would greatly benefit from the county getting an appropriate number of judges for the population and ( a district attorney who realizes most criminal cases can be fairly resolved with a plea bargain.)

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