New Mexico § 45-3-702 Priority among different letters

New Mexico Statutes

§ 45-3-702 — Priority among different letters

New Mexico § 45-3-702

Ch. 45Uniform Probate Code

Art. 3Probate of Wills and Administration

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N.M. Stat. Ann. § 45-3-702 (2026).

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A person to whom general letters are rightly issued first has exclusive authority under the letters until his appointment is terminated or modified. If, through error, general letters are issued to another, the first rightly appointed representative may recover any property of the estate in the hands of the representative subsequently appointed, but the acts of the erroneously-appointed personal representative done in good faith before notice of the first letters are not void for want of validity of appointment.

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A person to whom general letters are rightly issued first has exclusive authority under the letters until his appointment is terminated or modified. If, through error, general letters are issued to another, the first rightly appointed representative may recover any property of the estate in the hands of the representative subsequently appointed, but the acts of the erroneously-appointed personal representative done in good faith before notice of the first letters are not void for want of validity of appointment.