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California Probate Code

§ 245

PROB § 245Div. 2 · Part 6 · Ch. 2
(a)Where a will, trust, or other instrument calls for property to be distributed or taken “in the manner provided in Section 240 of the Probate Code,” or where a will, trust, or other instrument that expresses no contrary intention provides for issue or descendants to take without specifying the manner, the property to be distributed shall be distributed in the manner provided in Section 240.
(b)Use of the following words without more, as applied to issue or descendants, is not an expression of contrary intention:
(1)“Per capita” when living members of the designated class are not all of the same generation.

Legislative history

Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.

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