Conservatorship of Tedesco

Filed 5/8/23

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

Conservatorship of the Estate of

THOMAS S. TEDESCO.

GLORIA TEDESCO,

E077664

Petitioner and Appellant, (Super.Ct.No. INP1400272) v.

OPINION

LAURA K. WHITE, et al,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. John G. Evans, Judge.

Affirmed.

Herzog, Yuhas, Ehrlich & Ardell, Ian Herzog and Evan D. Marshall for Petitioner

and Appellant.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Adam F. Streisand, Nicholas Van Brunt

and Valerie E. Alter for Defendants and Respondents Laura K. White, Julie M. Bas, and

Sandra L. Kay.

1 Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, Geraldine A. Wyle, Jeryll S. Cohen, Kevin Bryce

Jackson, and Thomas C. Aikin for Defendant and Respondent David M. Wilson.

In 2015, a conservatorship of the estate of Thomas Tedesco, a wealthy

nonagenarian (Thomas), was created, and Thomas requested the appointment of

respondent David M. Wilson, an independent professional fiduciary, as conservator of the

estate. Thomas’s second wife, Gloria Tedesco (Gloria) was present at the August 10,

2015 hearing and stipulated…