2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY › CHAPTER 6 - Professional Fiduciaries › ARTICLE 3 - Licensing › Section 6534.

6534. (a) The bureau shall maintain the following information in each licensee’s file, shall make this information available to a court for any purpose, including the determination of the appropriateness of appointing, continuing the appointment of, or removing, the licensee as a conservator, guardian, trustee, personal representative of decedent’s estate, agent under a durable power of attorney for health care, agent under a durable power of attorney for finances, or a position arising from an appointment as a professional fiduciary practice administrator, and shall otherwise keep this information confidential, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section:
(1) The names of the licensee’s current conservatees, wards, principals under a durable power of attorney for health care, or principals under a durable power of attorney for finances, and the names of the trusts or estates currently administered by the licensee, whether the case is court supervised or non-court supervised.
(2) The aggregate dollar value of all assets currently under the licensee’s supervision as a professional fiduciary.
(3) The licensee’s current addresses and telephone numbers for their place of business and place of residence.
(4) Whether the licensee has ever been removed for cause as a conservator, guardian, trustee, personal representative of a decedent’s estate, agent under a durable power of attorney for health care, or agent under a durable power of attorney for finances, or has ever resigned or settled a matter in which a complaint against the licensee has been filed with the court as a conservator, guardian, trustee, personal representative of a decedent’s estate, agent under a durable power of attorney for health care, or agent under a durable power of attorney for finances, or a position arising from an appointment as a professional fiduciary practice administrator, in a specific case.
(5) The circumstances causing a removal or resignation described in paragraph (4) and the case names, court locations, and case numbers associated with the removal or resignation.
(6) The case names, court locations, and case numbers of all conservatorship, guardianship, trust, or other estate administration cases that are closed for which the licensee served as the conservator, guardian, trustee, agent under a durable power of attorney for finance or health care, personal representative of a decedent’s estate, or professional fiduciary practice administrator, whether the case is court supervised or non-court supervised.
(7) Information regarding any discipline imposed upon the licensee by the bureau.
(8) Whether the licensee has filed for bankruptcy or held a controlling financial interest in a business that filed for bankruptcy in the last 10 years.
(b) The bureau shall make the information in paragraphs (2), (4), (7), and (8) of subdivision (a) available to the public.
(c) The bureau shall also publish information regarding licensees on the Internet as specified in Section 27. The information shall include, but shall not be limited to, information regarding license status and the information specified under subdivision (b).
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 680, Sec. 6. (AB 1262) Effective January 1, 2024.)