California Probate Code

§ 21622

PROB § 21622 Effective Jan 1, 1998Div. 11 · Part 6 · Ch. 3

Statute text

If, at the time of the execution of all of decedent’s testamentary instruments effective at the time of decedent’s death, the decedent failed to provide for a living child solely because the decedent believed the child to be dead or was unaware of the birth of the child, the child shall receive a share in the estate equal in value to that which the child would have received if the decedent had died without having executed any testamentary instruments.

Legislative history

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