When Sheri Duffy and her ailing mother, Jean, voted for Proposition 19 five years ago, an ad campaign running during episodes of “Judge Judy” convinced them the measure would provide what its title promised: “Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families, and Victims of Wildfire or Natural Disasters.”

Campaign mailers praised the measure for allowing children to inherit their parents’ family home “without any tax increases.”

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What the Duffys didn’t realize, however, was that inherited primary residences would be reassessed to market value after the first $1 million. Just blocks from Apple’s headquarters, the family’s humble three-bedroom, two-bath house with “popcorn ceilings” that Sheri’s father bought on a truck driver’s salary in 1968 was worth more than $2

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