California Probate Code PART 1 - EFFECT OF DEATH OF MARRIED PERSON ON COMMUNITY AND QUASI-COMMUNITY PROPERTY

• Section 100.
  (a) Upon the death of a person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, one-half of the community property belongs to the surviving spouse...
• Section 101.
  (a) Upon the death of a person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, and is domiciled in this state, one-half of the decedent’s...
• Section 102.
  (a) The decedent’s surviving spouse may require the transferee of property in which the surviving spouse had an expectancy under Section 101 at the time of...
• Section 103.
  Except as provided by Section 224, if spouses die leaving community or quasi-community property and it cannot be established by clear and convincing evidence that...
• Section 104.
  Notwithstanding Section 100, community property held in a revocable trust described in Section 761 of the Family Code is governed by the provisions, if any,...
• Section 104.5.
  Transfer of community and quasi-community property to a revocable trust shall be presumed to be an agreement, pursuant to Sections 100 and 101, that those...
• Section 105.
  This part does not apply where the decedent died before January 1, 1985, and the law applicable prior to January 1, 1985, continues to apply...

Last modified: October 22, 2018