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DIVISION 7. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES OF DECEDENTS 7000-12591›PART 2. OPENING ESTATE ADMINISTRATION 8000-8577›CHAPTER 4. Appointment of Personal Representative 8400-8577›ARTICLE 4. Administrators 8460-8469
§ 8463
California Probate Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
If the surviving spouse is a party to an action for separate maintenance, annulment, or dissolution of the marriage of the decedent and the surviving spouse, and was living apart from the decedent on the date of the decedent’s death, the surviving spouse has priority next after brothers and sisters and not the priority prescribed in Section 8461.
(Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.)
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