SB 1056 Summary

• Establishes legal framework for posthumously conceived children through assisted reproduction and gestational agreements, allowing them to inherit from deceased parents' estates if proper notice requirements are met within specified timeframes (36 months in utero, 45 months after birth).

• Adds comprehensive definitions and parent-child relationship rules for children born through assisted reproduction and gestational carriers, including requirements that genetic material notices be published with creditor notices and provided to fiduciaries within 9 months of death.

• Modifies will execution procedures to allow notarization as alternative to witness attestation and permits self-proving wills through non-sworn statements under penalty of perjury, streamlining probate processes.

• Expands personal representative and trustee powers to account for potential posthumous children when distributing estates, and protects fiduciaries from liability for distributions made before receiving notice of genetic material availability.

• Extends statute of limitations for posthumously conceived children to recover improperly distributed estate property from 3 years to 4 years after decedent's death, providing additional time to assert inheritance rights.