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A Guide to Understanding Celebrity Conservatorships America loves celebrity gossip.  So who hasn’t been following the conservatorship drama surrounding Britney Spears in Los Angeles probate court?  The #Free Britney movement has led to an explosive New York Times documentary on  FX and Hulu called “Framing Britney...

Here on the Brown White & Osborn LLP Blog, we’ve covered many of the emergency steps that different branches of government have taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic.  In several jurisdictions, authorities have extended the statute of limitations within which prosecutors must file criminal charges on the theory that...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many California families did not understand the rules governing visiting children under probate guardianships and senior citizens under probate conservatorships.  The pandemic and its stay-at-home orders, social distancing rules, and impact on the state have made visitation even more challenging, and it is now even more...

California continues to lead the nation in enacting effective measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.  This week, California authorities enacted sweeping emergency rules designed to release nonviolent offenders from pretrial detention without bail, reducing the risk and scale of jail outbreaks. Under normal circumstances, California’s criminal courts set bail...