Conservatorship and Estate of Bell CA2/7

Filed 12/14/21 Conservatorship and Estate of Bell CA2/7 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

Conservatorship of the Person B311461 and Estate of ALCEONE BELL. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 17STPB11004) LATIF DIOP,

Petitioner and Appellant,

v.

AILEEN FEDERIZO, as Conservator, etc.,

Objector and Respondent.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lee R. Bogdanoff, Judge. Affirmed. Law Office of Kaveh Keshmiri and Kaveh Keshmiri for Petitioner and Appellant. No appearance by Objector and Respondent. ______________

Latif Diop appeals the probate court’s February 11, 2021 order denying his July 2019 petition for attorney fees incurred when he successfully petitioned the court to serve as the temporary conservator of Alceone Bell. Diop contends the court failed to consider his supplemental petition filed in December 2020, which he claims cured any defects in his July 2019 request. We affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Diop designated a record on appeal that consists of the superior court’s docket sheet in this case, the February 11, 2021 order from which he appeals, and his February 17, 2021 notice of appeal. He did not include in his designation of record on appeal 1 a transcript of proceedings, any documents filed in the case, or any of the court’s prior orders. According to Diop’s appellate brief, which understandably contains no citations to the nonexistent record on appeal, Diop petitioned to become the conservator of Bell in 2017 after he discovered Bell was malnourished and giving money to her roommate, who was using her credit cards. Diop tried his conservatorship petition to the court and established Bell was suffering from dementia. Following trial the court appointed Diop as Bell’s temporary conservator. At some point shortly thereafter, while Diop “was waiting for the testamentary letters