45-1-102. Rule of construction; purposes of act.

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A. The Uniform Probate Code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

B. The underlying purposes and policies of the Uniform Probate Code are:

(1)to simplify, clarify and modernize certain laws concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;

(2)to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;

(3)to promote a speedy and efficient system for the settlement and distribution of the estate of the decedent;

(4)to facilitate survivorship and related accounts and similar property interests in New Mexico;

(5)to provide a comprehensive system of methods of disclaiming interests in property;

(6)to facilitate the use and enforcement of governing instruments;

(7)to apportion taxes on estates; and

(8)to make uniform the law among the states.

History: 1953 Comp., § 32A-1-102, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 257, § 1-102; 2011, ch. 124, § 1.