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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 7.205 · Chapter 5. Bonding of Personal Representatives, Guardians, Conservators, and Trustees

Independent power to sell real property

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

If the personal representative requests or has been granted an independent power to sell or hypothecate real estate or to lease it for a term of more than one year, the personal representative must state in the request to fix the amount of the bond the value of the real property less encumbrances.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 7.205 amended effective January 1, 2002; adopted effective January 1, 2000.

Source of truth

Edition
As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Official file
https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/seven/rule7_205
Text hash
sha256 93a32543af69e3a3a143c10ff42e30faa89cd83b3f33b1c11a2a510e47124511
Composed by
compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph

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