§ 15-20-102 — Definitions

Colorado § 15-20-102

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 15: Probate,
• Art.: Uniform Community Property Disposition

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In this article 20:

(1) Community property spouse means an individual in a marriage or other
relationship under which community property could be acquired during the
existence of the relationship and that remains in existence at the time of death of
either party to the relationship.

(2) Electronic means relating to technology having electrical, digital,
magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

(3) Jurisdiction means the United States, a state, a foreign country, or a
political subdivision of a foreign country.

(4) Partition means to voluntarily divide property to which this act
otherwise would apply.

(5) Person means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public
corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or
other legal entity.

(6) Personal representative means an executor, administrator, successor
personal representative, special administrator, and other person that performs
substantially the same function.

(7) Property means anything that may be the subject of ownership,
whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, legal or equitable, or any interest
therein.

(8) Reclassify means a change in the characterization or treatment of
community property to property owned separately by a community property
spouse.

(9) Record means information inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in
an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form.

(10) Sign means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to
execute or adopt a tangible symbol or attach to or logically associate with the
record an electronic symbol.

(11) State means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any other territory or possession
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes a federally
recognized Indian tribe.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2023: Entire article R&RE, (SB 23-100), ch. 30, p. 101, � 1, effective July 1.