Dying intestate is not a failure of character. It simply means you have a plan you did not write. California has one ready: statutory, fixed in order of who receives what, and routed through the full probate process. The only question is whose plan applies.
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If you have a will, or if you don't have a will, that's called dying intestate. It's not a bad word. It basically means that you died without making any written instructions.
The difference is, if you die intestate, without any written instructions, that means you do have a plan, but this plan is being created by the state. Here we have the State of California. It is statutory, written in statutes: who receives, in what order, et cetera. And it's going to go through the whole probate process.
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