California Probate Code Section 9606

CA Prob Code § 9606 (2017)  

Unless otherwise provided in the instrument or in this division, a personal representative is not personally liable on an instrument, including but not limited to a note, mortgage, deed of trust, or other contract, properly entered into in the personal representative’s fiduciary capacity in the course of administration of the estate unless the personal representative fails to reveal the personal representative’s representative capacity or identify the estate in the instrument.

(Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018