Cal. Prob. Code § 5682

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session.
Section 5682 - [Effective until 1/1/2032] Conditions related to rights and protections

If all of the following conditions are satisfied, a person dealing with a beneficiary of a revocable transfer on death deed of real property shall have the same rights and protections as the person would have if the beneficiary had been named as a distributee of the property in an order for distribution of the transferor's estate that had become final:

(a) The person acted in good faith and for a valuable consideration.
(b) An affidavit of death was recorded for the property under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 210) of Part 4 of Division 2.
(c)
(1) An affidavit was recorded for the property, which contains a statement in substantially the following form: "I, [name of beneficiary], served the notice required by Probate Code Section 5681."
(2) If a revocable transfer on death deed names more than one beneficiary, only one beneficiary is required to comply with this subdivision.

Ca. Prob. Code § 5682

Amended by Stats 2021 ch 215 (SB 315),s 24, eff. 1/1/2022.
Added by Stats 2015 ch 293 (AB 139),s 17, eff. 1/1/2016.