Section 3144 Of Article 5. Hearing And Order From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.
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. (a) The court may authorize the proposed transaction if the
court determines all of the following:
(1) The property that is the subject of the proposed transaction
is community property of the spouses, and, if the proposed
transaction involves property in which a spouse also has a separate
property interest, that there is good cause to include that separate
property in the transaction.
(2) One of the spouses then has a conservator or otherwise lacks
legal capacity for the proposed transaction.
(3) The other spouse either has legal capacity for the proposed
transaction or has a conservator.
(4) Each of the spouses either (i) joins in or consents to the
proposed transaction, (ii) has a conservator, or (iii) is
substantially unable to manage his or her own financial resources or
resist fraud or undue influence. Substantial inability may not be
proved by isolated incidents of negligence or improvidence.
(5) The proposed transaction is one that should be authorized
under this chapter.
(b) If the proposed transaction is to provide gifts or otherwise
affect estate planning of the spouse who is alleged to lack capacity,
as would be properly the subject of a petition under Article 10
(commencing with Section 2580) of Chapter 6 of Part 4 (substituted
judgment) in the case of a conservatorship, the court may authorize
the transaction under this chapter only if the transaction is one
that the court would authorize under that article.
(c) If the court determines under subdivision (a) that the
transaction should be authorized, the court shall so order and may
authorize the petitioner to do and perform all acts and to execute
and deliver all papers, documents, and instruments necessary to
effectuate the order.
(d) In an order authorizing a transaction, the court may prescribe
any terms and conditions as the court in its discretion determines
appropriate, including, but not limited to, requiring joinder or
consent of another person.