6122.1
Effective Jan 1, 2002Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 893, Sec. 51. Effective January 1, 2002.
(a) Unless the will expressly provides otherwise, if after executing a will the testator’s domestic partnership is terminated, the termination revokes all of the following:
- (1) Any disposition or appointment of property made by the will to the former domestic partner.
- (2) Any provision of the will conferring a general or special power of appointment on the former domestic partner.
- (3) Any provision of the will nominating the former domestic partner as executor, trustee, conservator, or guardian.
- (b) If any disposition or other provision of a will is revoked solely by this section, it is revived by the testator establishing another domestic partnership with the former domestic partner.
(c) In case of revocation by termination of a domestic partnership:
- (1) Property prevented from passing to a former domestic partner because of the revocation passes as if the former domestic partner failed to survive the testator.
- (2) Other provisions of the will conferring some power or office on the former domestic partner shall be interpreted as if the former domestic partner failed to survive the testator.
- (d) This section shall apply only to wills executed on or after January 1, 2002.