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California Code, Probate Code - PROB § 5682

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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.

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