{"id":801,"date":"2017-01-02T04:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/?p=801"},"modified":"2018-07-15T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:29:19","slug":"who-will-be-in-charge-of-your-estate-if-you-have-no-will-or-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/who-will-be-in-charge-of-your-estate-if-you-have-no-will-or-trust","title":{"rendered":"Who will be in charge of your estate if you have no will or trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

California law states who has priority to serve as administrator of your probate estate if you died without a will and with a California estate large enough to require a California\u00a0probate. Specifically, a person in the following relation to the decedent is entitled to appointment as the California administrator in the following order of priority:<\/p>\n

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  1. Surviving spouse or registered domestic partner<\/li>\n
  2. Children<\/li>\n
  3. Grandchildren<\/li>\n
  4. Other descendants<\/li>\n
  5. Parents<\/li>\n
  6. Brothers and sisters<\/li>\n
  7. Descendants\u00a0of brothers and sisters<\/li>\n
  8. Grandparents<\/li>\n
  9. Descendants of grandparents<\/li>\n
  10. Children of a predeceased spouse or domestic partner<\/li>\n
  11. Other descendants of a predeceased spouse or domestic partner<\/li>\n
  12. Other next of kin<\/li>\n
  13. Parents of a predeceased spouse or domestic partner<\/li>\n
  14. Descendants of parents of a predeceased spouse or domestic partner<\/li>\n
  15. Conservator or guardian of the decedent<\/li>\n
  16. Public administrator<\/li>\n
  17. Creditors<\/li>\n
  18. Any other person (i.e. friends)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    See California Probate Code Section 8461 and the exceptions at Probate Code Sections 8462-8469.<\/p>\n

    Of course, these statutory rules do not apply if the decedent had a will that nominated an executor who was willing and able to act. Nor should these rules apply if the decedent\u2019s assets were titled properly in a living trust and with proper beneficiary designation.<\/p>\n

    Copyright January 2017 James J. Phillips<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    California law states who has priority to serve as administrator of your probate estate if you died without a will and with a California estate large enough to require a California\u00a0probate. Specifically, a person in the following relation to the decedent is entitled to appointment as the California administrator in the following order of priority: … Continue reading Who will be in charge of your estate if you have no will or trust?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatorship","category-elder-law","category-estate-planning","category-probate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleasantonestateplanninglawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}