§ 21370

Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 620, Sec. 7. (SB 105) Effective January 1, 2011.

“Independent attorney” means an attorney who has no legal, business, financial, professional, or personal relationship with the beneficiary of a donative transfer at issue under this part, and who would not be appointed as a fiduciary or receive any pecuniary benefit as a result of the operation of the instrument containing the donative transfer at issue under this part.

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