California Probate Code

§ 6402

PROB § 6402 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 6 · Part 2 · Ch. 1

Statute text

Except as provided in Section 6402.5, the part of the intestate estate not passing to the surviving spouse, under Section 6401, or the entire intestate estate if there is no surviving spouse, passes as follows:

(a)To the issue of the decedent, the issue taking equally if they are all of the same degree of kinship to the decedent, but if of unequal degree those of more remote degree take in the manner provided in Section 240.

(b)If there is no surviving issue, to the decedent’s parent or parents equally.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 913, Sec. 32.5. (AB 2747) Effective January 1, 2015.