If all of the following conditions are satisfied, a person dealing with a beneficiary of a revocable transfer on death deed of real property shall have the same rights and protections as the person would have if the beneficiary had been named as a distributee of the property in an order for distribution of the transferorâs estate that had become final: (a) The person acted in good faith and for a valuable consideration. (b) An affidavit of death was recorded for the property under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 210) of Part 4 of Division 2. (c) (1) An affidavit was recorded for the property, which contains a statement in substantially the following form: âI, [name of beneficiary], served the notice required by Probate Code Section 5681.â (2) If a revocable transfer on death deed names more than one beneficiary, only one beneficiary is required to comply with this subdivision.
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