Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Re: estates of inheritance

You misread the statute. Semicolons are very important. Here's the full statute: "Estates of inheritance and for life are called estates of freehold; estates for years are chattels real; and estates at will are chattel interests, but are not subject to enforcement of a money judgment." In essence, if you are leasing property, then a judgment cannot attach to the property because the lease actually is personalty as far as your interest would go, and not real estate. You would have no ownership interest in the real estate. There's no limitation -- at least according to these definitions -- on obtaining a judgment and levying upon real property inherited from another.