Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a survival clause in a woman’s revocable living trust naming her three children as beneficiaries, but providing that a child who did not survive her by more than 30 days would be deemed “for all purposes” to have died before her, was insufficient to overcome California’s anti-lapse statute and cut-off inheritance by the children of a son who predeceased her.

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Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that hospitals enjoy broad immunity from claims relating to actions taken by mentally ill patients after their release from an involuntary period of in-patient psychiatric treatment, rejecting the assertion by the parents of a man who killed himself hours after he was set free from a Ventura County hospital, over their protestations, that an exception exists for cases of gross negligence.