If the law existing at the time of the creation of a power of appointment and the law existing at the time of the release or exercise of the power of appointment or at the time of the assertion of a right given by this part differ, the law existing at the time of the release, exercise, or assertion of a right controls. Nothing in this section makes invalid a power of appointment created before July 1, 1970, that was valid under the law in existence at the time it was created.
Cal. Prob. Code § 601
General Provisions
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Sefton v. Sefton (2012)
Most recently applied in Sefton v. Sefton (May 2012)
Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 30, Sec. 2
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