Prob. Code, § 21211 · Article 3. Time of Creation of Interest
Prob. Code, § 21211
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
For purposes of this chapter:
(a) If there is a person who alone can exercise a power created by a governing instrument to become the unqualified beneficial owner of (1) a nonvested property interest or (2) a property interest subject to a power of appointment described in Section 21206 or 21207, the nonvested property interest or power of appointment is created when the power to become the unqualified beneficial owner terminates.
(b) A joint power with respect to community property held by individuals married to each other is a power exercisable by one person alone.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 156, Sec. 24.
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