Walk It Through: No Will
The community share, a half or more of the separate estate, and an affidavit after forty days.
A woman dies without a will, survived by her husband and their son, with community and separate property.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Two deaths in one family. Wills, registered domestic partners in detail, and the office of financial recovery copy are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.