Cal. PROB § 5682
This is the official text of Cal. PROB § 5682, part of California’s Probate Code — governs wills, trusts, estates, and conservatorships.
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Official statutory text
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.
(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.
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