California Probate Code

§ 21610

PROB § 21610 Effective Jan 1, 1998Div. 11 · Part 6 · Ch. 2

Statute text

Except as provided in Section 21611, if a decedent fails to provide in a testamentary instrument for the decedent’s surviving spouse who married the decedent after the execution of all of the decedent’s testamentary instruments, the omitted spouse shall receive a share in the decedent’s estate, consisting of the following property in said estate:

(a)The one-half of the community property that belongs to the decedent under Section 100.

(b)The one-half of the quasi-community property that belongs to the decedent under Section 101.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 724, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 1998.