Article 7. Accounts Of Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Custodians, Trustees, And Other Fiduciaries of California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 7.

Any association may accept fiduciary savings accounts in the name of any administrator, executor, custodian, conservator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary for a named beneficiary or beneficiaries.

(a) The withdrawal value of a fiduciary account, and interest on it, or other rights relating to it, may be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to the fiduciary without regard to any notice to the contrary as long as the fiduciary is living.
  (b) The payment or delivery to the fiduciary or a receipt or acquittance signed by a fiduciary to whom payment or delivery of rights is made shall be a sufficient release of an association for the payment or delivery.

(a) Whenever a person holding an account in a fiduciary capacity dies and no written notice of the revocation or termination of the fiduciary relationship has been given to an association and the association has no written notice of any other disposition of the beneficial estate, the withdrawal value of the account, and interest on it, or other rights relating to it, may, at the option of an association, be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries.
  (b) In the absence of written notice to the contrary an association may presume that each beneficiary of an account with two or more beneficiaries has an undivided equal beneficial interest in the account.

No association paying any fiduciary, beneficiary, or designated person in accordance with this article or the California Multiple-Party Accounts Law contained in Part 2 (commencing with Section 5100) of Division 5 of the Probate Code shall, because of the payment, be liable for any estate, inheritance, or succession taxes that may be due this state.

The provisions of this article apply to federal associations to the extent that they are not inconsistent with and do not infringe upon federal laws governing federal associations.