DIVISION 4.5. POWERS OF ATTORNEY 4000-4545›PART 2. POWERS OF ATTORNEY GENERALLY 4100-4310›CHAPTER 3. Modification and Revocation of Powers of Attorney 4150-4155

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(a) If after executing a power of attorney the principal’s marriage to the attorney-in-fact is dissolved or annulled, the principal’s designation of the former spouse as an attorney-in-fact is revoked.

(b) If the attorney-in-fact’s authority is revoked solely by subdivision (a), it is revived by the principal’s remarriage to the attorney-in-fact.

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 307, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 1995.)

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