§ 45-7-504 — Custodial trustee for future payment or transfer

New Mexico § 45-7-504

• Jurisdiction: New Mexico
• Ch. 45: Uniform Probate Code
• Art. 7: Trust Administration

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A. A person having the right to designate the recipient of property payable or transferable upon a future event may create a custodial trust upon the occurrence of the future event by designating in writing the recipient, followed in substance by: "as custodial trustee for __________________ (name of beneficiary) under the Uniform Custodial Trust Act". B. Persons may be designated as substitute or successor custodial trustees to whom the property must be paid or transferred in the order named if the first designated custodial trustee is unable or unwilling to serve. C. A designation under this section may be made in a will, a trust, a deed, a multiple-party account, an insurance policy, an instrument exercising a power of appointment or a writing designating a beneficiary of contractual rights. Otherwise, to be effective, the designation must be registered with or delivered to the fiduciary, payor, issuer or obligor of the future right.

Legislative History

1978 Comp., § 45-7-504, enacted by Laws 1992, ch. 66, § 51.