Maldonado

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Campiran died intestate on February 5, 2021. According to the allegations in Maldonado’s complaint, Maldonado and Campiran lived together from 2008 until Campiran’s death in a house that Campiran had

purchased prior to 2008 (the Real Property).1 According to Maldonado, at the beginning of their cohabitation, she and Campiran entered into an oral agreement, under which they “agreed to treat [the Real Property] as joint property.” Based on that agreement, Maldonado allegedly “made the monthly mortgage payment on [the Real Property] from her personal income

Maldonado acknowledges, in her opening appellate brief, that the Real Property “was in Mr. Campiran’s name as his sole and separate property.” 2 with the understanding that she would be entitled to the value and investment of [the Real Property] in making the monthly mortgage payment.” A. Proceedings in the Probate Court Slauson, who is Campiran’s daughter, filed a petition to administer her father’s estate in late February 2021, initiating the probate court proceeding titled Estate of Felipe DeJesus Campiran (Super. Ct. San Bernardino

County, No. PROPS2100158) (the Probate…