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FACTS

This is not the first appeal Dettamanti filed in this trust litigation that now involves six related pending cases. The Prior Durant Harvesting Case Durant Harvesting, Inc. v. Dettamanti (B296096, Jan. 13, 2020) [nonpub. opn.] (hereafter Durant Harvesting) was a prior Dettamanti appeal involving an interpleader action concerning the trust, the duties and powers of Farmer as temporary trustee, and various probate orders issued against Dettamanti as the former trustee. Our decision in Durant Harvesting is significant to this appeal because issues Dettamanti litigated in that case

2 have a direct bearing on issues she is raising in the current appeal. In Durant Harvesting, we said, “Dettamanti was designated as the trustee of the Trust in 2018. The trustee has the authority to oversee the operations and management of the Carrari ranch. Dettamanti claimed Joseph Carrari, the trustor, wanted her to be the trustee because he ‘did not trust his family members.’ Dettamanti was Carrari’s personal assistant in 2016 and she became the manager of his ranch in 2017. After Carrari’s death, his children filed actions to remove Dettamanti as trustee. Dettamanti continued to live on the…