Estate of Grimes CA1/4

facts, accusations, and claims which fail to comply with many fundamental rules of appellate procedure. Those deficiencies include the failure to: (1) present legal analysis and relevant supporting authority for each point asserted, with appropriate citations to the record on appeal (Duarte v. Chino Community Hospital (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 849, 856); (2) support references to the record with a citation to the volume and page number in the record where the matter appears; and (3) state the nature of the action, the relief sought in the trial court, the judgment or order appealed from, and summarize the significant facts, but limited to matters in the record (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.204(a)(1)(C), (2)(A), (C)).

1 These are not mere technical requirements, but important rules of appellate procedure designed to require litigants to present their cause systematically so that the court “ ‘may be advised, as they read, of the exact question under consideration, instead of being compelled to extricate it from the mass.’ ” (Landa v. Steinberg (1932) 126 Cal.App. 324, 325.) More importantly, the incomprehensible nature of appellant’s briefs makes it impossible for this court to discern…