CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Disclos. Not Protected: Examples
............Claim Through Deceased Client
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No privilege if all parties claim through deceased client.

Lawyer-client privilege does not survive decedent's death re matters of will contests, heirship and will construction.

Privileged communications between attorney and executrix, where attorney also represented testatrix, not excepted by Evid. Code §957, which refers only to deceased client.