{"data":{"id":"us-ca/prob-5136","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PROB § 5136","heading":"","body":"(a) “Party” means a person who, by the terms of the account, has a present right, subject to request, to payment from a multiple-party account other than as an agent.\n(b) A P.O.D. payee is a party, by reason of being a P.O.D. payee, only after the account becomes payable to the payee by reason of surviving all persons named as original payees.\n(c) A beneficiary of a Totten trust account is a party, by reason of being a beneficiary, only after the account becomes payable to the beneficiary by reason of surviving all persons named as trustees.","path":["Probate Code - PROB","DIVISION 5. NONPROBATE TRANSFERS [5000. - 5705.]","PART 2. MULTIPLE-PARTY ACCOUNTS [5100. - 5407.]","CHAPTER 1. Short Title and Definitions [5100. - 5152.]","ARTICLE 2. Definitions [5120. - 5152.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"1aac99899a4daab6c3cf515e923dea9c8dd866fba1463959008ca471ce5661ee","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/prob-5134","next":"us-ca/prob-5138"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}