Section 21135 Of Chapter 3. Exoneration; Ademption From California Probate Code >> Division 11. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3.
21135
. (a) Property given by a transferor during his or her
lifetime to a person is treated as a satisfaction of an at-death
transfer to that person in whole or in part only if one of the
following conditions is satisfied:
(1) The instrument provides for deduction of the lifetime gift
from the at-death transfer.
(2) The transferor declares in a contemporaneous writing that the
gift is in satisfaction of the at-death transfer or that its value is
to be deducted from the value of the at-death transfer.
(3) The transferee acknowledges in writing that the gift is in
satisfaction of the at-death transfer or that its value is to be
deducted from the value of the at-death transfer.
(4) The property given is the same property that is the subject of
a specific gift to that person.
(b) Subject to subdivision (c), for the purpose of partial
satisfaction, property given during lifetime is valued as of the time
the transferee came into possession or enjoyment of the property or
as of the time of death of the transferor, whichever occurs first.
(c) If the value of the gift is expressed in the contemporaneous
writing of the transferor, or in an acknowledgment of the transferee
made contemporaneously with the gift, that value is conclusive in the
division and distribution of the estate.
(d) If the transferee fails to survive the transferor, the gift is
treated as a full or partial satisfaction of the gift, as the case
may be, in applying Sections 21110 and 21111 unless the transferor's
contemporaneous writing provides otherwise.