CHAPTER 1. Intestate Succession Generally
Heading of Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 529, Sec. 2.
§§ 6400–6414 · 14 sections
- § 6400 Any part of the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by will passes to the decedent’s heirs as prescribed in this part.
- § 6401 (a) As to community property, the intestate share of the surviving spouse is the one-half of the community property that belongs to the decedent under Section…
- § 6402 Except as provided in Section 6402.5, the part of the intestate estate not passing to the surviving spouse, under Section 6401, or the entire intestate estate…
- § 6402.5 (a) For purposes of distributing real property under this section if the decedent had a predeceased spouse who died not more than 15 years before the decedent…
- § 6403 (a) A person who fails to survive the decedent by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the decedent for the purpose of intestate succession, and the heirs…
- § 6404 Part 4 (commencing with Section 6800) (escheat) applies if there is no taker of the intestate estate under the provisions of this part.
- § 6406 Except as provided in Section 6451, relatives of the halfblood inherit the same share they would inherit if they were of the whole blood.
- § 6407 Relatives of the decedent conceived before the decedent’s death but born thereafter inherit as if they had been born in the lifetime of the decedent.
- § 6409 (a) If a person dies intestate as to all or part of his or her estate, property the decedent gave during lifetime to an heir is treated as an advancement…
- § 6410 (a) A debt owed to the decedent is not charged against the intestate share of any person except the debtor. (b) If the debtor fails to survive the decedent,…
- § 6411 No person is disqualified to take as an heir because that person or a person through whom the person claims is or has been a person who is not a citizen or…
- § 6412 Except to the extent provided in Section 120, the estates of dower and curtesy are not recognized.
- § 6413 A person who is related to the decedent through two lines of relationship is entitled to only a single share based on the relationship which would entitle the…
- § 6414 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this part does not apply where the decedent died before January 1, 1985, and the law applicable prior to January 1,…