Prob. Code, § 3700 · Article 1. Definitions
Prob. Code, § 3700
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
As used in this chapter:
(a) “Absentee” is defined in Section 1403.
(b) “Certificate of missing status” means the official written report complying with Section 1283 of the Evidence Code and showing the determination of the secretary of the military department or the head of the department or agency concerned or the delegate of the secretary or head that the absentee is in missing status.
(c) “Eligible spouse” means the spouse of an absentee who has not commenced an action or proceeding for judicial or legal separation, annulment, adjudication of nullity, or dissolution of the marriage of the spouse and the absentee.
(d) “Family of an absentee” means an eligible spouse, if any, or if no eligible spouse, the child or children of an absentee, equally, or if no child or children, the parent or parents of an absentee, equally, provided these persons are dependents of the absentee as defined in Section 401 of Title 37 of the United States Code, and the guardian of the estate or conservator of the estate of any person bearing such relationship to the absentee.
(e) “Secretary concerned” is defined in Section 1440.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.
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