California Probate Code

§ 5022

PROB § 5022 Effective Jan 1, 1994Div. 5 · Part 1 · Ch. 2 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), a spouse’s written consent to a provision for a nonprobate transfer of community property on death is not a transmutation of the consenting spouse’s interest in the property.

(b)This chapter does not apply to a spouse’s written consent to a provision for a nonprobate transfer of community property on death that satisfies Section 852 of the Family Code. Such a consent is a transmutation and is governed by the law applicable to transmutations.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 224.3. Effective January 1, 1994.