Disentitlement Doctrine Results In Dismissal Of Appeal For Refusing To Follow Court’s Orders.

In a dispute over a family trust, the trial court ordered defendant to do certain things. Instead of filing an accounting or quitclaiming certain property to the other party as ordered, defendant did not file the accounting and quitclaimed the property to her daughter instead of to the person she was ordered to quitclaim it, and then defendant appealed those orders. Pursuant to the disentitlement doctrine, the appellate court dismissed defendant’s appeal due to defendant’s “flagrant violation of the court’s orders.” (Blumberg v. Minthorne (Cal. App. Fourth Dist., Div. 3; February 4, 2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 1384, [183 Cal.Rptr.3d 179].)