John Scheerer

Practice Summary

I focus my practice exclusively on trusts, estates, and conservatorship litigation. I have successfully handled a variety of matters before the Probate Department of the Superior Court. I have also handled appeals in the California Court of Appeal, resulting in multiple successful appellate decisions. I represent beneficiaries, trustees, professional fiduciaries, and non-profit institutions such as national universities. I balance clever advocacy with an unbiased and realistic assessment of each of myclient's cases in order to provide the most cost-effective favorable outcome. Representative examples include prosecuting and defending will and trust contests, defending creditor's claims in decedents' trusts or estates, defending conservatorship proceedings, and prosecuting and defending breach of fiduciary duty and surcharge claims against trustees. Most recently, I was successful in achieving the following results for my clients: Obtained terminating sanctions in addition to demurrers sustained without leave to amend against a disgruntled relative of his client, a trustee of a trust holding substantial assets. Obtained a dismissal in subsequent related conservatorship litigation. Obtained an affirmance in favor of his clients, both trustee and beneficiaries of a trust, after an extensive appellate process, which included my oral advocacy in the California Court of Appeal.