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Jul. 7, 2016

Julia Craig Kelety

San Diego County Judge Julia Kelety's probate court features cases akin to the most famous plays.

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San Diego County (San Diego)
By Dean Calbreath
Special to the Daily Journal

Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" offers literature's best-known description of probate court: a musty place where cases languish for decades as inheritances are eaten away by legal bills.

But Superior Court Judge Julia Kelety, who has been presiding over San Diego County probate cases for the past eight years, says her job is more like Shakespeare than Dicke... (continued)

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