Section 3051 Of Article 1. Management, Control, And Disposition Generally From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
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. (a) Subject to Section 3071, the right of a spouse to manage
and control community property, including the right to dispose of
community property, is not affected by the lack or alleged lack of
legal capacity of the other spouse.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), if one spouse has legal
capacity and the other has a conservator:
(1) The spouse who has legal capacity has the exclusive management
and control of the community property including, subject to Section
3071, the exclusive power to dispose of the community property.
(2) The community property is not part of the conservatorship
estate.
(c) If one spouse has legal capacity and the other has a
conservator, the spouse having legal capacity may consent, by a
writing filed in the proceeding, that all or part of the community
property be included in and, subject to Section 3071, be managed,
controlled, and disposed of as a part of the conservatorship estate.
(d) Except as provided in subdivision (e), if both spouses have
conservators, an undivided one-half interest in the community
property shall be included in and, subject to Section 3071, be
managed, controlled, and disposed of as a part of the conservatorship
estate of each spouse.
(e) If both spouses have conservators, when authorized by order of
the court in which any of the conservatorship proceedings is
pending, the conservators may agree in writing that all or specific
parts of the community property shall be included in the
conservatorship estate of one or the other of the spouses and,
subject to Section 3071, be managed, controlled, and disposed of as a
part of the conservatorship estate of that spouse.