If a stockholder dies in CA and leaves the stock to heirs in a trust will the heirs get what the stock was worth at the time of death of th...

Question

If a stockholder dies in CA and leaves the stock to heirs in a trust; will the heirs get what the stock was worth at the time of death of the stockholder or what it is worth when it is taken out of the state controllers office by the executor five years later?

Answer

They get the stock itself.