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Probate Code § 5625

ARTICLE 1. Execution

Current as of September 28, 2026Prob. Code, § 5625Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 215, Sec. 10. (SB 315) Effective January 1, 2022. Repealed as of January 1, 2032, pursuant to Section 5600.

(a) Any person generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a revocable transfer on death deed.

(b) A revocable transfer on death deed is not invalid because it is signed by an interested witness.

(c) If a beneficiary of a revocable transfer on death deed is also a subscribing witness, there is a presumption that the witness procured the revocable transfer on death deed by duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence. This presumption is a presumption affecting the burden of proof. This presumption does not apply where the witness is named as beneficiary solely in a fiduciary capacity.