(a) This title applies only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding.
§ 676.2.Applicability of Title
Title 8.5. Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act · Enacted 1991 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 28, 2026
In one sentenceSection 676.2 limits the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act to foreign-money claims raised in an action or distribution proceeding, and applies it to those foreign-money issues even when California's conflict-of-laws rules call for a different state's or country's law on the case's other issues.
Full Text of § 676.2
(b) This title applies to foreign-money issues even if other law under the conflict-of-laws rules of this state applies to other issues in the action or distribution proceeding.
Plain-English Summary
This section draws the boundary around the whole Act. It applies only to foreign-money claims — not to every issue in a case that happens to involve foreign money in some incidental way, and only within an action or distribution proceeding as § 676.1 defines those terms.
Within that boundary, though, the Act's reach doesn't bend to ordinary conflict-of-laws analysis. Even if another state's or country's substantive law governs other issues in the same case under California's conflict-of-laws rules, this title still controls how the foreign-money issues themselves get handled.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Act apply to?
Foreign-money claims raised in an action or distribution proceeding, as those terms are defined in § 676.1.
Does other governing law override this Act's rules on currency issues?
No, the Act applies to foreign-money issues even when other law governs other issues in the same case under California's conflict-of-laws rules.
Amendment History
Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 932, Sec. 1.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 28, 2026.
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