How have Respondent Respondents been found to be care custodians in a personal injury case?

Appellant recites all the evidence that he believes demonstrated that respondents were "care custodians." He overlooks the well established tenets of the substantial evidence rule. (See Crawford v. Southern Pac. Co. (1935) 3 Cal.2d 427, 429.)

In Bernard v. Foley, supra, 39 Cal.4th 794, the decedent resided at the home shared by two of her longtime friends, who were boyfriend and girlfriend, for two months before she died. (Id. at p. 798.) The two jointly cared for decedent during her final illness. (Ibid.) Although "[n]either had been named as a beneficiary in earlier versions of the Trust," three days before her death, the decedent executed an amendment to her trust under which the two friends "each became a 50 percent residuary beneficiary." (Ibid.)

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