California doesn't recognize anything like Florida's Lady Bird deed. Its closest equivalent is the revocable transfer-on-death deed, available for transferors who die on or after January 1, 2016. As currently written, the statute is scheduled to sunset on January 1, 2032, subject to whatever the law says about deeds already signed before then (California Probate Code § 5600).
The property that qualifies is narrower than many assume: one-to-four unit residential properties or a qualifying residential unit in a common-interest development, but not, among other exclusions, agricultural parcels over 40 acres (California Probate Code § 5610). That's a meaningfully tighter scope than treating every California property as automatically eligible.
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