§ 156. — 156. (Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 265.)

California § 156.

• Jurisdiction: California
• Code PEN: Penal Code - PEN
• Title: 7.
• Part 1.: TITLE 7. OF CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
• Ch. 7.: CHAPTER 7. Other Offenses Against Public Justice

Text

Every person who fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit any real estate or to receive a share of any personal estate, with intent to intercept the inheritance of any such real estate, or the distribution of any such personal estate from any person lawfully entitled thereto, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three or four
years.

Legislative History

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 265. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.