Section 21525 Of Chapter 2. Marital Deduction Gifts From California Probate Code >> Division 11. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 2.
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. (a) If an instrument that makes a marital deduction gift
includes a condition that the transferor's spouse survive the
transferor by a period that exceeds or may exceed six months, other
than a condition described in subdivision (b), the condition shall be
limited to six months as applied to the marital deduction gift.
(b) If an instrument that makes a marital deduction gift includes
a condition that the transferor's spouse survive a common disaster
that results in the death of the transferor, the condition shall be
limited to the time of the final audit of the federal estate tax
return for the transferor's estate, if any, as applied to the marital
deduction gift.
(c) The amendment of subdivision (a) made by Chapter 113 of the
Statutes of 1988 is declaratory of, and not a change in, either
existing law or former Section 1036 (repealed by Chapter 923 of the
Statutes of 1987).