Pierce v. Francis

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• holding that two notices of lis pendens on property were not spurious where they were based on daughter's claim to title that was contingent on her invalidating father's will and acquiring an interest in the property through intestate succession
• holding that two notices of lis pendens on property were not spurious where they were based on daughter's claim to title that was contingent on her invalidating father's will and acquiring an interest in the property through intestate succession
• also noting that, because claims in a will contest could affect title to real property in the estate, those claims were sufficient to justify recording a lis pendens
• “The policy underlying a notice of lis pendens is to prevent a proceeding involving real property rights from being thwarted by transfers of property interests to persons not bound by the outcome of the proceeding.”

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