2011 California Code
Probate Code
DIVISION 6. WILLS AND INTESTATE SUCCESSION [6100 - 6806]
CHAPTER 6. Small Estate Set-Aside
Section 6602
A petition may be filed under this chapter requesting an order setting aside the decedent s estate to the decedent s surviving spouse and minor children, or one or more of them, as provided in this chapter, if the net value of the decedent s estate, over and above all liens and encumbrances at the date of death and over and above the value of any probate homestead interest set apart out of the decedent s estate under Section 6520, does not exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
(Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.)
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