MARCHIANO, J.
Probate Code section 21350 presumptively invalidates a donative transfer to an attorney-beneficiary who drafted the instrument providing for the gift. Probate Code section 21351 permits the transfer if, inter alia, the drafter-beneficiary can show by clear and convincing evidence that the transfer was not the result of fraud, menace, duress or undue influence. In this case we hold that these statutes, enacted in 1993, apply retroactively.
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