Estate of Dunstan CA4/1

facts from U.S. Specialty’s operative third amended petition, accepting the properly pleaded material allegations as true, but not conclusions of fact or law. (Ranger v. Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (2025) 17 Cal.5th 532, 538; Turner

v. Victoria (2023) 15 Cal.5th 99, 109.)3 We consider attachments and other facts from matters that are properly the subject of judicial notice. (640 Tenth, LP v. Newsom (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 840, 849 & fn. 2; Moore v. Conliffe (1994) 7 Cal.4th 634, 638.) The decedent, John Dunstan, died in March 2013 at age 85, having a claim of ownership to numerous pieces of real property and bank/securities accounts. At the time, Dunstan was taking medications, including the narcotic Vicodin, for multiple serious ailments. U.S. Specialty is the surety who bonded a fiduciary, Janice K. Hall, as the estate’s administrator. In 2011, before Dunstan’s death, Lopez’s father Leon moved into Dunstan’s house, took control of his assets and medical care, and isolated him from others. In September 2011, Leon took Dunstan and Lopez to Las Vegas so they could be married. Afterwards, Leon continued to reside with Dunstan but Lopez lived in her separate residence. At some point, Leon…