Reinhardt

BACKGROUND

In June and July 2011, appellant filed multiple pleadings in the civil division of the superior court. These pleadings all concerned appellant‟s allegation that several parties, including respondent, engaged in wrongful conduct by altering and falsifying the dispositive provisions of the Maxwell Family Trust (Trust). Appellant alleged that respondent altered the Trust to make herself the beneficiary and thereby stole appellant‟s inheritance. Respondent was the successor trustee of the Trust. The trustors of the Trust were appellant‟s grandparents. Respondent is the trustors‟ daughter and appellant‟s mother. According to appellant, the Trust originally provided that, following the trustors‟ deaths, appellant and his sister would receive the Trust estate. In the copy of the Trust attached to one of appellant‟s underlying petitions, appellant is named as a contingent beneficiary. The surviving trustor, appellant‟s grandfather, died in 1987. In April 2003, appellant learned that respondent was the sole beneficiary of the Trust. Thereafter, appellant made threatening calls to William Coleman, the attorney probating his grandfather‟s estate, and to respondent and her…