California Probate Code

§ 249.6

PROB § 249.6 Effective Jan 1, 2006Div. 2 · Part 6 · Ch. 3

Statute text

(a)Upon timely receipt of the notice required by Section 249.5 or actual knowledge by a person who has the power to control the distribution of either the decedent’s property or death benefits payable by reason of the decedent’s death, that person may not make a distribution of property or pay death benefits payable by reason of the decedent’s death before two years following the date of issuance of a certificate of the decedent’s death or entry of a judgment determining the fact of decedent’s death, whichever event occurs first.

(b)Subdivision (a) does not apply to, and the distribution of property or the payment of benefits may proceed in a timely manner as provided by law with respect to, any property if the birth of a child or children of the decedent conceived after the death of the decedent will not have an effect on any of the following:

(1)The proposed distribution of the decedent’s property.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 285, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.