{"id":780,"date":"2022-03-21T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/statutes-california-laws\/?page_id=780"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:06","slug":"ccp-377-60","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/ccp-377-60\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP 377.60"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Currrent as of February 4, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l10dm2he-e546af750d64877319dc7c43fae9ec02\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l10dm2he-e546af750d64877319dc7c43fae9ec02 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:19px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l10dm2he-e546af750d64877319dc7c43fae9ec02 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Code of Civil Procedure \u00a7\u2002377.60<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"SS_Banner\">Persons who may assert cause of action<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A cause of action for the death of a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another may be asserted by any of the following persons or by the decedent\u2019s personal representative on their behalf:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(a)<\/strong> The decedent\u2019s surviving spouse, domestic partner, children, and issue of deceased children, or, if there is no surviving issue of the decedent, the persons, including the surviving spouse or domestic partner, who would be entitled to the property of the decedent by intestate succession. If the parents of the decedent would be entitled to bring an action under this subdivision, and the parents are deceased, then the legal guardians of the decedent, if any, may bring an action under this subdivision as if they were the decedent\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1) Whether or not qualified under subdivision (a), if they were dependent on the decedent, the putative spouse, children of the putative spouse, stepchildren, parents, or the legal guardians of the decedent if the parents are deceased.<br \/>\n(2) As used in this subdivision, \u201cputative spouse\u201d means the surviving spouse of a void or voidable marriage who is found by the court to have believed in good faith that the marriage to the decedent was valid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(c)<\/strong> A minor, whether or not qualified under subdivision (a) or (b), if, at the time of the decedent\u2019s death, the minor resided for the previous 180 days in the decedent\u2019s household and was dependent on the decedent for one-half or more of the minor\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(d)<\/strong> This section applies to any cause of action arising on or after January 1, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(e)<\/strong> The addition of this section by Chapter 178 of the Statutes of 1992 was not intended to adversely affect the standing of any party having standing under prior law, and the standing of parties governed by that version of this section as added by Chapter 178 of the Statutes of 1992 shall be the same as specified herein as amended by Chapter 563 of the Statutes of 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(f)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1) For the purpose of this section, \u201cdomestic partner\u201d means a person who, at the time of the decedent\u2019s death, was the domestic partner of the decedent in a registered domestic partnership established in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 297 of the Family Code.<br \/>\n(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for a death occurring prior to January 1, 2002, a person may maintain a cause of action pursuant to this section as a domestic partner of the decedent by establishing the factors listed in paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 297 of the Family Code, as it read pursuant to Section 3 of Chapter 893 of the Statutes of 2001, prior to its becoming inoperative on January 1, 2005.<br \/>\n(3) The amendments made to this subdivision during the 2003\u201304 Regular Session of the Legislature are not intended to revive any cause of action that has been fully and finally adjudicated by the courts, or that has been settled, or as to which the applicable limitations period has run.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Added Stats 1992 ch 178 \u00a7 20 (SB 1496). Amended Stats 1996 ch 563 \u00a7 1 (SB 392); Stats 1997 ch 13 \u00a7 1 (SB 449), effective May 23, 1997; Stats 2001 ch 893 \u00a7 2 (AB 25); Stats 2004 ch 947 \u00a7 1 (AB 2580); Stats 2020 ch 51 \u00a7 1 (AB 2445), effective September 9, 2020.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>CCP 377.60<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CCP 377.60 - California Statutes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/ccp-377-60\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCP 377.60 - 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