Part 5: Complications of the TOD Deed. Real estate mediator Jim Hildreth gives details on California’s has a new (2016) option for transferring a home to your heirs: the Revocable Transfer on Death (TOD) deed, also called a beneficiary deed. A homeowner can transfer their primary residence to a named beneficiary or beneficiaries upon the owner’s death without a probate proceeding.
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