Section 7000 Of Chapter 1. Passage Of Decedent’s Property From California Probate Code >> Division 7. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 1.

. Subject to Section 7001, title to a decedent's property passes on the decedent's death to the person to whom it is devised in the decedent's last will or, in the absence of such a devise, to the decedent's heirs as prescribed in the laws governing intestate succession.