Prob. Code, § 621 · Chapter 3. Creation of Powers of Appointment
Prob. Code, § 621
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A power of appointment is created only if all of the following are satisfied:
(1) There is a creating instrument.
(2) The creating instrument is valid under applicable law.
(3) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the creating instrument transfers the appointive property.
(4) The terms of the creating instrument manifest the donor’s intent to create in a powerholder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a permissible appointee.
(b) Paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) does not apply to the creation of a power of appointment by the exercise of a power of appointment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 81, Sec. 4. (AB 2846) Effective January 1, 2017.
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