N.M. Stat. § 45-2-1102

Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 45-2-1102 - Definitions

As used in the Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act:

A. "disclaimant" means the person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made;
B. "disclaimed interest" means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made;
C. "disclaimer" means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property;
D. "fiduciary" means a personal representative, trustee, agent acting under a power of attorney or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property of another person;
E. "jointly held property" means property held in the name of two or more persons under an arrangement in which all holders have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving holder is entitled to the whole of the property; and
F. "trust" means:
(1) an express trust, charitable or noncharitable, with additions thereto, whenever and however created; and
(2) a trust created pursuant to a statute, judgment or decree that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust.

NMS § 45-2-1102

Laws 2001, ch. 290, § 2; 1978 Comp., § 46-10-2 recompiled and amended as § 45-2-1102 NMSA 1978 by Laws 2011, ch. 124, § 90.
Renumbered from §46-10-2 and amended by 2011, c. 124,s. 90, eff. 1/1/2012.