At least 15 days before the hearing of a petition for administration of a decedent‘s estate, the petitioner shall deliver notice of the hearing pursuant to Section 1215 on all of the following persons:

(a) Each heir of the decedent, so far as known to or reasonably ascertainable by the petitioner.

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Terms Used In California Probate Code 8110

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Devisee: means any person designated in a will to receive a devise. See California Probate Code 34
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Heir: means any person, including the surviving spouse, who is entitled to take property of the decedent by intestate succession under this code. See California Probate Code 44
  • Instrument: means a will, a document establishing or modifying a trust, a deed, or any other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. See California Probate Code 45
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Will: includes codicil and any testamentary instrument which merely appoints an executor or revokes or revises another will. See California Probate Code 88

(b) Each devisee, executor, and alternative executor named in any will being offered for probate, regardless of whether the devise or appointment is purportedly revoked in a subsequent instrument.

(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 319, Sec. 64. (AB 976) Effective January 1, 2018.)