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Cal. Prob. Code § 9000

General Provisions

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Starita v. Yool (2007)

Most recently applied in Dacey v. Taraday (June 2011)

Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 159, Sec. 1

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in this division:

(a) “Claim” means a demand for payment for any of the following, whether due, not due, accrued or not accrued, or contingent, and whether liquidated or unliquidated:

(1) Liability of the decedent, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise.

(2) Liability for taxes incurred before the decedent’s death, whether assessed before or after the decedent’s death, other than property taxes and assessments secured by real property liens.

(3) Liability of the estate for funeral expenses of the decedent.

(b) “Claim” does not include a dispute regarding title of a decedent to specific property alleged to be included in the decedent’s estate.

(c) “Creditor” means a person who may have a claim against estate property.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.