Moramarco

Filed 3/5/26 Certified for Partial Pub. 3/27/26 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

JON MORAMARCO et al.,

Plaintiffs and Respondents, E084620

v. (Super.Ct.No. PRMC1900167)

EDWARD J. NOWAKOSKI, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Michael Rushton, Judge.

Affirmed with directions.

Edward Nowakoski, in pro. per., for Defendant and Appellant.

Haight Brown & Bonesteel and Arezoo Jamshidi, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Defendant Edward J. Nowakoski, an attorney, served as trustee of the John A.

Moramarco Restated Living Trust dated March 26, 2003 (Trust). For three years

following the settler’s death, he failed to account to the beneficiaries. Plaintiffs and

respondents Jon and Anthony Moramarco, beneficiaries of the Trust (beneficiaries),

sought his removal as trustee, an accounting, a judgment for twice the value of the

1 property recovered (Prob. Code,1 § 859), and attorney fees and costs. Separately, an

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