Probate Real Estate Agent in San Clemente, CA
Paula Aragone represents executors, administrators and personal representatives selling San Clemente property through the Orange County probate court, where a permit the city has already issued can still be appealed, and where the rail corridor below the bluff is a disclosure the estate owes rather than a view it advertises.
The Letters set the route: full authority under Probate Code 10402, where 10503 removes the confirmation requirements, or limited authority under 10403, where the hearing and the overbid apply. The coast then sets everything else. Public Resources Code 30603 keeps a local coastal permit decision appealable to the Coastal Commission for ten working days after the notice of final action, and a court date does not move for that window.
| Who signs | The personal representative named in the Letters |
|---|---|
| The route with no hearing | Full authority, Probate Code 10402 and 10503 |
| What limited authority withholds | Four real property powers, Probate Code 10403 |
| Coastal appeal window | Ten working days from the notice of final action, PRC 30603 |
| Not fully delegated | Marblehead Coastal, an Area of Deferred Certification |
| The corridor | Passenger service halted 25 April 2025 for reinforcement work |
Ten Working Days the City Cannot Waive, Inside a Calendar the Court Already Fixed
A probate runs to dates set by statute and by a clerk. The coastal process runs to dates set by the Coastal Act. Neither one adjusts for the other, and the estate is the party standing between them.
Public Resources Code 30600 requires a coastal development permit for development in the coastal zone, and once a Local Coastal Program is certified the city issues that permit, except on tidelands, submerged lands and public trust lands. San Clemente's programme is certified in segments, and one segment is not: Marblehead Coastal remains an Area of Deferred Certification, where permit authority is not fully delegated to the city.
The part that catches estates is what happens after an approval. Public Resources Code 30603 keeps a local decision appealable to the Coastal Commission where the development is between the sea and the first public road paralleling the sea, within 300 feet of the inland extent of any beach, or within 300 feet of the top of the seaward face of any coastal bluff. The appeal window is ten working days from the notice of final action. A bluff top parcel therefore stays exposed to a Commission appeal even though the city signed the permit.
Set that against a confirmation calendar. Probate Code 8800 gives four months from letters for the inventory and appraisal, Orange County states the referee should return within 60 days, and examiners review the petition three to four weeks before the hearing. If a repair, a correction or a piece of previously unpermitted work has to be permitted before closing, that runs on the coastal clock, which nobody in the courtroom can shorten.
The second San Clemente item is the corridor, and the record on it is unusually complete. The Surf Line right of way runs where a recurring landslide meets the tracks and where wave action at high tide reaches them. Service was closed from 15 September to 3 October 2021 after beach erosion and storm damage, halted on 29 September 2022 for soil movement, closed again in April 2023 by a further landslide, and halted in June 2023 by the Casa Romantica landslide on the bluff above, with service resuming on 19 July 2023.
It continued. On 25 January 2024 a landslide from private property north of the San Clemente Pier damaged the Mariposa Pedestrian Bridge, with limited service returning on 6 March 2024 and full service on 25 March 2024. Stabilisation to date includes riprap between beach and tracks, steel anchors into bedrock, and a 250 foot barrier wall twelve feet high on piles set 32 feet deep, built under an emergency declaration. Passenger rail service through San Clemente was halted as of 25 April 2025 for emergency reinforcement work.
That is a material fact and the estate owes it. The current OCTA programme runs four emergency areas by milepost, roughly 95 percent sand and 5 percent rock, with about 540,000 cubic yards of sand between North Beach and Mariposa Point at a total programme cost of 310.5 million dollars. The longer question is genuinely open: the Orange County Coastal Rail Resiliency Study covers over 40 miles of the LOSSAN corridor, a separate initiative studies relocating the line inland between San Juan Capistrano and San Onofre State Beach, and the final report reaches the OCTA Board in fall 2026. The honest position for an estate is to hand a buyer the sequence and say that the permanent alignment is not settled.
Selling a San Clemente Probate Property Without Losing the Court Date
Two calendars run through this file and only one of them is the court's. The coastal one has fixed periods nobody can shorten, so it has to be understood at the start rather than discovered when a correction turns out to need a permit.
Read the grant, because every later date depends on it
Probate Code 10402 gives full authority, meaning every power under the Independent Administration of Estates Act, and 10503 then removes the court confirmation requirements from the sale. Probate Code 10403 withholds four real property powers, and 10501(b) requires court supervision for exactly those four. A coastal property on the confirmation track has two immovable calendars instead of one.
Tell the referee where the parcel sits on the coast
The referee is appointed under Probate Code 8920 from the State Controller's list, paid one tenth of one percent of the value appraised plus expenses under 8961, with a 75 dollar floor and a 10,000 dollar ceiling under 8963. Orange County expects the appraisal within 60 days. Describe the bluff, the coastal jurisdiction and the corridor exposure, not a street address.
Secure a coastal house that is going to stand empty
Tell the carrier in writing that the property is unoccupied, since a policy written for an owner occupant may not respond to an empty one. Change the locks, keep the utilities connected, and keep drainage and any bluff top landscaping maintained, because a property that deteriorates through a long administration is priced on what an inspector finds in it.
Choose the route with the appeal window already counted
Under full authority the sale runs on a Notice of Proposed Action and no hearing. Under limited authority the report of sale, petition, examiner review and overbid all apply. If anything about the property is likely to need a coastal permit before closing, count Public Resources Code 30603 into the plan before a hearing date is requested, not after.
Market it with the corridor record on the table
Buyers here find the closures themselves. An estate that presents the documented sequence, the current OCTA works and the open questions is negotiating from the record. An estate that waits to be asked is answering a buyer who has already read a newspaper and drawn a worse conclusion than the record supports. Keep every offer in writing.
Give notice under full authority, or petition the court
Probate Code 10586 requires the Notice of Proposed Action not less than 15 days before the date specified. Under 10581 it goes to affected devisees and heirs, anyone who filed a request for special notice, and the Attorney General where the state's interest is affected. On the court track Probate Code 10308 governs the report of sale and petition for confirmation.
Confirmation, and what an open courtroom allows
Probate Code 10309(a) lets the court confirm a private sale only where the appraisal falls within one year of the hearing and the offer reaches 90 percent of the appraised value. Probate Code 10311(a) then opens the property to a higher bid in open court. Orange County examiners review three to four weeks before the date.
Open escrow with the coastal and corridor file handed over
Give the buyer the documents rather than a summary: the coastal permit history for anything a parent built, the jurisdictional position of the parcel, and the corridor record with its dates. Where a permit for past work cannot be located, disclose the gap in writing. A buyer can price a known gap and cannot price a surprise.
Run out the creditor period, then close the estate
Probate Code 9100 sets creditor claims at the later of four months after letters or sixty days after notice to that creditor. Probate Code 12200 requires a petition for final distribution or a status report not later than one year after letters, or eighteen months where a federal estate tax return is required. Compensation is computed under 10800 and 10810.
San Clemente Ground, and What Each Piece Puts on the Estate's Timetable
In this city the question is not which tract the parcel sits in but which jurisdiction, which appeal window and which stretch of corridor it sits above. These are the pieces that come up in probate files.
Southwest San Clemente
One of the districts named in the city record, and part of the stretch where the rail corridor sits closest to the housing. An estate here assembles the corridor record before it assembles the marketing, not afterwards.
North Beach
A named district at the northern end of the beach frontage, and the northern reference point for the sand placed under the current programme. Where the parcel relates to the corridor, the file should say so in the estate's own words first.
The Lasuen boot district
The named district around Lost Winds beach. Proximity to the water is what a buyer values and what the coastal permit rules regulate, so the same feature drives both the price and the timetable.
Southwest Riviera
A named neighbourhood in the city record. As everywhere in this city, the useful work for an estate is establishing the jurisdictional position of the parcel rather than repeating what the neighbourhood is known for.
Marblehead Coastal
The uncertified segment of the Local Coastal Program, an Area of Deferred Certification where permit authority is not fully delegated to the city. If a parcel sits here, establish it before any date is promised to a buyer or requested from the court.
The appealable band
Public Resources Code 30603 reaches development between the sea and the first public road paralleling the sea, within 300 feet of the inland extent of any beach, or within 300 feet of the top of the seaward face of any coastal bluff.
The ten working day window
The appeal period runs from the notice of final action on a local coastal permit decision. It is short, it is fixed, and it sits after the city has already approved, which is exactly why it surprises families working to a court date.
The Surf Line right of way
The rail corridor below the bluff, where a recurring landslide intersects the right of way and wave action at high tide reaches the tracks. Passenger service through San Clemente was halted as of 25 April 2025 for emergency reinforcement work.
The four OCTA emergency areas
Areas 1 and 2 cover riprap repair and sand nourishment and are complete. Area 3 is catchment wall construction with trail restoration, under construction. Area 4 is engineered shore protection and sand nourishment, underway. Total programme cost is 310.5 million dollars.
Casa Romantica
The June 2023 landslide on the bluff above the tracks halted service until 19 July 2023. It is part of the documented sequence a San Clemente estate hands to a buyer rather than a story a neighbour tells during a showing.
The Pier and the Mariposa Pedestrian Bridge
On 25 January 2024 a landslide from private property north of the San Clemente Pier damaged the Mariposa Pedestrian Bridge. Limited service returned on 6 March 2024 and full service on 25 March 2024, which is the level of detail the record supports.
The two rail stations
Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink serve two stations in the city. Rail access is a genuine feature of living here, which is precisely why the closure record has to travel with it rather than behind it.
San Clemente High School
The Capistrano Unified high school in the city. The district serves San Clemente in full from its office at 33122 Valle Rd in San Juan Capistrano on 949-234-9200, and assignment for a specific address is confirmed with the district.
Bernice Ayer and Shorecliffs
The two Capistrano Unified middle schools in San Clemente. Useful anchors when confirming an assignment, and no substitute for a dated written answer from the district before schools appear anywhere in marketing.
Six San Clemente Facts That Reach the File Later Than the Buyer Does
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None of these is about the market. Each is a jurisdictional position, a fixed statutory period or a public record that the estate could have produced first and did not.
The city approved it and everyone treated that as final
Public Resources Code 30603 keeps a local coastal permit decision appealable to the Coastal Commission where the development is between the sea and the first public road paralleling the sea, within 300 feet of the inland extent of any beach, or within 300 feet of the top of the seaward face of any coastal bluff. The window is ten working days from the notice of final action.
For an estate the consequence is scheduling rather than law. A permit that closes escrow is not a permit whose appeal period is still running, and a confirmation hearing does not move to accommodate one. Establish whether the parcel sits in that band before anyone promises a closing date.
The parcel turned out to be inside the deferred segment
San Clemente's Local Coastal Program is certified in segments and Marblehead Coastal is an Area of Deferred Certification, so permit authority there is not fully delegated to the city. That is a real timeline item rather than a technicality.
It has to be established at the start, from the record, for the specific parcel. An estate that assumes city jurisdiction and finds out otherwise mid escrow is rebuilding a court calendar around a process it has no control over.
A parent built something and nobody looked for the coastal permit
Long held coastal houses accumulate decks, walls, patios and additions. Some of that work needed a coastal development permit and some of it may never have had one, and the representative signing the disclosures has no personal knowledge of any of it.
Search the record before listing rather than after an offer. Where a permit cannot be found, disclose the gap plainly. Trying to cure old work inside a confirmation calendar means adding a permit process, and possibly a ten working day appeal window, to a date that was fixed months earlier.
The rail corridor was left out because it is not on the hazard form
The Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement under Civil Code 1103.2 covers six categories and none of them is a rail corridor, a bluff failure or an ongoing public works programme. A clean hazard report says nothing at all about the thing every buyer here asks about.
The record is public, documented and long: closures in 2021, 2022 and twice in 2023, the Mariposa Pedestrian Bridge damage on 25 January 2024, and passenger service halted as of 25 April 2025 for emergency reinforcement work. An estate that omits it has not simplified the file, it has handed the buyer a reason to distrust the rest of it.
The corridor was described from a headline instead of the record
Overstating it is its own failure. The programme is specific: four emergency areas by milepost, riprap and sand nourishment complete in Areas 1 and 2, catchment wall construction under way in Area 3, engineered shore protection under way in Area 4, roughly 95 percent sand and 5 percent rock, about 540,000 cubic yards of sand between North Beach and Mariposa Point, and 310.5 million dollars of programme cost.
The open question is the permanent alignment. The Orange County Coastal Rail Resiliency Study covers over 40 miles of the LOSSAN corridor, a separate initiative studies relocating the line inland between San Juan Capistrano and San Onofre State Beach, and the final report goes to the OCTA Board in fall 2026. Say that, with the dates, and let the buyer weigh it.
The referee was given a house and not a coastal position
Probate Code 8920 puts the appointment of the referee with the court from the State Controller's list, so the only real input the representative has is the description. Where the parcel is bluff top, inside the appealable band or inside the deferred segment, that belongs in the file the referee receives.
Probate Code 10309(a) then measures every offer against the appraised value, and the court can confirm only where the sum offered reaches 90 percent of it. A number produced without the coastal position is a floor set against a property that does not match the one being sold.
A Sale With No Hearing, or a Sale With One, and What the Coast Does to Each
The Letters usually decide this. What the coast decides is how much slack either route actually has, because a fixed hearing date and a fixed appeal period do not negotiate with each other.
Selling under full authority
Probate Code 10402 gives a representative with full authority every power under the Independent Administration of Estates Act, and Probate Code 10503 states that the requirements applicable to court confirmation of sales of real property do not apply to the sale. No confirmation hearing, no 90 percent appraisal floor, no courtroom overbid and no published notice of sale. On a coastal parcel that flexibility is worth more than usual, because the estate can move a closing date to fit a permit rather than fitting a permit to a court date.
Notice replaces the hearing. Probate Code 10580 to 10592 govern the Notice of Proposed Action, and 10586 requires it to be mailed or personally delivered not less than 15 days before the date specified in the notice. Under 10581 it goes to each known devisee whose interest would be affected, each known heir whose interest would be affected, anyone who has filed a request for special notice, and the Attorney General where the state's interest is affected.
The period can be bought back where the family agrees. Probate Code 10582 removes the requirement for anyone who consents in writing and 10583 allows the notice to be waived in writing, so consents collected before the listing take fifteen days out of the escrow. That is often the same fifteen days a buyer's coastal consultant or a permit correction turns out to need.
The honest downside is that a single objection changes everything. Under Probate Code 10587 any person entitled to notice may object by delivering or mailing a written objection before the date specified or before the action is taken, whichever is later, and the representative is back before the court with a committed buyer. Full authority also removes the court and nothing else. Public Resources Code 30603 still keeps a bluff top approval appealable for ten working days, Marblehead Coastal is still an Area of Deferred Certification, and the corridor record still has to be disclosed.
Selling with court confirmation
This is the route where authority is limited under Probate Code 10403, and it is also chosen deliberately where the estate wants a court order behind a sale whose disclosures are complicated. It begins with the referee under Probate Code 8920, paid one tenth of one percent of the value appraised plus expenses under 8961, with a floor of 75 dollars and a ceiling of 10,000 dollars per estate under 8963. Orange County states the appraisal should return within 60 days, and Probate Code 8800 requires the inventory within four months after letters.
Once an offer is accepted the representative files a report of sale and a petition for confirmation under Probate Code 10308, and if it is not filed within 30 days the purchaser may file it. Title does not pass until the court confirms. Probate Code 10309(a) permits confirmation of a private sale only where the property was appraised within one year prior to the confirmation hearing, the valuation date falls in that year, and the sum offered is at least 90 percent of the appraised value. Unless 10301, 10302 or 10303 applies, notice of sale is published under 10300 and Government Code 6063a: at least ten days, three publications, with at least five days intervening between the first and last publication dates.
At the hearing the property is open to a higher bid. Probate Code 10311(a) requires the higher offer to be at least 10 percent more on the first ten thousand dollars of the original bid and 5 percent more on the amount of the original bid in excess of ten thousand dollars. On an accepted bid of 1,000,000 dollars that is 1,000,000 plus 1,000 plus 49,500, so the minimum first overbid is 1,050,500 dollars. The court accepts the highest qualifying offer, may decline to confirm and order a new sale, and may reject a higher bid on less favourable credit terms. Commissions are excluded from the computation.
The honest accounting is that the overbid can raise the estate's number and can also empty the room, and on this coast it empties it faster. A San Clemente buyer has usually paid for an inspection, a geotechnical opinion and a coastal jurisdiction check before they write, and a buyer who has spent that money and cannot bid past their approval does not attend a hearing to watch a stranger outbid them. The estate is trading a possibly higher figure against a smaller, better informed field, and examiners reviewing three to four weeks before the date will not repair a petition assembled late.
The Corridor Record Is Public. The Estate Is Expected to Have Read It.
Paula Aragone has worked Orange County transactions for 23 years, across 900+ transactions and $900M+ sold, and she came to real estate after four years of law school. Probate attorneys send court supervised files to this office for that reason rather than to a general listing agent, because the deadlines, the sequence and the language of a confirmation petition are already familiar and nobody is learning them on somebody's estate.
She holds the CPRES designation, Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist, and the SRES designation, Seniors Real Estate Specialist. What CPRES means at a court confirmation sale is practical. The marketing does not end when an offer is accepted, because the property stays open to a bid from the floor under Probate Code 10311(a), so interest has to be carried through the report of sale and the petition to the hearing itself. The purchase agreement has to tell the buyer plainly what happens in that courtroom, and the file has to reach the examiner in a state that survives review three to four weeks before the date.
The representative is judged on the record rather than the price. Beneficiaries rarely litigate over a number they watched being negotiated in the open. They litigate over a sale that looked arranged: no competition, a buyer the family already knew, a valuation nobody can reconstruct. Broad exposure, every offer preserved in writing and a referee given a complete description of the parcel answer that, and they are the same things the court's own examiner is looking for.
In San Clemente the additional work is jurisdiction and record. Establish whether the parcel sits in the appealable band under Public Resources Code 30603 or inside the Marblehead Coastal Area of Deferred Certification. Search for the coastal permit history on anything a parent built, and disclose the gap where one exists. Hand the buyer the corridor record with its dates rather than a reassurance about it. The honest part is that none of this guarantees the hearing date holds, because calendars move and examiners raise items. What it does is make sure the delay was never the estate's own file.
San Clemente Probate Sales, the Bluff, the Rail Line and the Court
The questions executors, administrators and personal representatives ask here, answered for California law and for a coastline with two permit authorities and an unfinished public works programme.
Does this estate need a full probate?
The date of death sets it, not the date of filing. For deaths on or after 1 April 2025 the affidavit for personal property under Probate Code 13100 and 13101 reaches 208,850 dollars, a petition to determine succession to real property under 13151 to 13154 reaches 750,000 dollars but only for the decedent's California primary residence under AB 2016, and the affidavit for real property of small value under 13200 reaches 69,625 dollars. Those figures hold through 31 March 2028, and anything above the ceiling is a full probate.
What did the Letters actually authorise?
Read the line on the Letters themselves. Probate Code 10402 grants full authority, every power under the Independent Administration of Estates Act, and 10503 then removes the court confirmation requirements from a sale of real property. Probate Code 10403 grants limited authority, which withholds four powers: sell real property, exchange real property, grant an option to purchase real property, and borrow money secured by an encumbrance on real property. Probate Code 10501(b) requires court supervision for exactly those four.
Does the estate need a coastal permit in order to close the sale?
Selling is not development. Public Resources Code 30600 requires a coastal development permit for development in the coastal zone, and a transfer of ownership by itself is not that. What brings the coastal process into a probate is work: a repair a buyer or a lender requires, a correction to something a parent built, or a buyer's own plans. Establish the parcel's jurisdictional position early so that if any of those arise, the timetable is already understood.
How long does a city coastal approval stay open to appeal?
Ten working days from the notice of final action. Public Resources Code 30603 keeps a local decision appealable to the Coastal Commission where the development is between the sea and the first public road paralleling the sea, within 300 feet of the inland extent of any beach, or within 300 feet of the top of the seaward face of any coastal bluff. So a bluff top parcel remains exposed to a Commission appeal even though the city issued the permit, and a confirmation hearing will not wait for that period to run.
Our parcel is in Marblehead Coastal. What does that add to the calendar?
Marblehead Coastal is the uncertified segment of the city's Local Coastal Program, an Area of Deferred Certification where permit authority is not fully delegated to the city. That is a genuine timeline item rather than a formality. Establish it from the record for the specific parcel at the start, and do not promise a closing date or request a hearing date built on an assumption that the city has the whole process in its hands.
A parent built a deck without a permit. Can the estate cure that before the hearing?
Possibly, but not on the court's timetable, and that is the point. Curing past work means a permit process, and where the parcel sits in the appealable band under Public Resources Code 30603 there is also a ten working day appeal window after any local approval. Inside a confirmation calendar that is very hard to fit. In most estates the better route is a full written disclosure of what was found and what was not, priced into the sale.
What does the estate owe a buyer about the rail corridor?
The record, with its dates. Service was closed from 15 September to 3 October 2021 after beach erosion and storm damage, halted on 29 September 2022 for soil movement, closed again in April 2023, and halted in June 2023 by the Casa Romantica landslide with service resuming 19 July 2023. On 25 January 2024 a landslide north of the San Clemente Pier damaged the Mariposa Pedestrian Bridge, with limited service on 6 March 2024 and full service on 25 March 2024. Passenger service was halted as of 25 April 2025 for emergency reinforcement work.
Where does the corridor programme stand now?
The current OCTA programme runs four emergency areas by milepost. Areas 1 and 2, riprap repair and sand nourishment, are complete. Area 3 is catchment wall construction with trail restoration, under construction. Area 4 is engineered shore protection and sand nourishment, underway. The mix is roughly 95 percent sand and 5 percent rock, with about 540,000 cubic yards of sand between North Beach and Mariposa Point, at a total programme cost of 310.5 million dollars. Existing works include riprap, steel anchors into bedrock and a 250 foot barrier wall twelve feet high on piles set 32 feet deep.
Is the permanent alignment settled?
No, and an estate should say so rather than reassure anybody. The Orange County Coastal Rail Resiliency Study covers the LOSSAN corridor from San Clemente to Fullerton, over 40 miles, and a separate initiative studies relocating the line inland between San Juan Capistrano and San Onofre State Beach. The vulnerability assessment was completed in winter 2024 and the final report goes to the OCTA Board in fall 2026. The stated design goal is protecting the railroad for up to 30 years.
What should the referee be told, and what does the appraisal cost?
Tell him where the parcel sits: bluff top or not, inside the appealable band or not, inside the Marblehead Coastal segment or not, along with the corridor exposure and any association obligations. The referee is appointed from the State Controller's list under Probate Code 8920 and paid one tenth of one percent of the value appraised plus actual and necessary expenses under 8961, with a floor of 75 dollars and a ceiling of 10,000 dollars per estate under 8963. Orange County states the appraisal should return within 60 days.
What is the lowest figure the court can confirm?
Probate Code 10309(a) allows the court to confirm a private sale only where the property was appraised within one year prior to the confirmation hearing, the valuation date falls within that year, and the sum offered for the property is at least 90 percent of the appraised value. It is a floor rather than a target. Where the referee's number sits above what a coastal buyer will pay once the corridor record is in front of them, no confirmable offer exists and the estate needs a new appraisal or a further marketing period.
How is the first overbid worked out?
Probate Code 10311(a) requires a higher offer of at least 10 percent more on the first ten thousand dollars of the original bid and 5 percent more on the amount of the original bid in excess of ten thousand dollars. On an accepted bid of 1,000,000 dollars that is 1,000,000 plus 1,000 plus 49,500, so the minimum first overbid is 1,050,500 dollars. The court accepts the highest qualifying offer, may decline to confirm and order a new sale, and may reject a higher bid made on less favourable credit terms. Commissions are excluded.
Are the two rules measured from the same starting number?
No. The 90 percent floor under Probate Code 10309(a) is measured against the probate referee's appraised value, and it controls what the court is permitted to confirm. The overbid increment under Probate Code 10311(a) is measured against the accepted bid, whatever that turned out to be, and it controls what a competing bidder has to beat. Two baselines with two different jobs, and a representative who merges them will brief the family wrong on both.
How much notice does a full authority sale need, and can the family waive it?
Probate Code 10586 requires the Notice of Proposed Action not less than 15 days before the date specified in the notice, and under 10581 it goes to affected devisees and heirs, anyone who filed a request for special notice, and the Attorney General where the state's interest is affected. Probate Code 10582 removes the requirement for anyone who consents in writing and 10583 allows a written waiver. Where consents are not obtained, 10587 lets a recipient object in writing before the specified date or before the action is taken, whichever is later.
Does the estate have to publish notice of the sale?
On the confirmation track, usually. Probate Code 10300(a) requires publication under Government Code 6063a, meaning at least ten days, three publications, with at least five days intervening between the first and last publication dates, completed before the day specified for the sale, and Probate Code 10304 sets what the notice states. The exceptions are 10303 where the will directs or authorises the sale, 10302 where the court shortens the period to not less than five days, 10301 for property under five thousand dollars, and 10503 for a full authority sale.
Where is the case heard, how long will it run, and what does it cost?
Probate is heard at the Costa Mesa Justice Complex, 3390 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, with a probate assistance line on 657-622-8452 and case information at probatepublic.occourts.org. Examiners review three to four weeks before the hearing. No official source publishes a typical duration. On cost, Probate Code 10800 and 10810 set identical tiers for the representative and the attorney and both are payable, computed on the gross inventory without reference to encumbrances, so a 2,000,000 dollar gross estate produces 33,000 dollars each and 66,000 dollars combined, plus any extraordinary fees.
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