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§ 45-6-223 NMSA 1978

Payment on POD designation

Known as the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act

The act spans §§ 45–45 (61 sections).

1978 Comp., § 45-6-223, enacted by Laws 1992, ch. 66, § 32.

A financial institution, on request, may pay sums on deposit in an account with a POD designation to:

A. one or more of the parties, whether or not another party is disabled, incapacitated or deceased when the payment is requested and whether or not a party survives another party;

B. the beneficiary or beneficiaries, if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing that the beneficiary or beneficiaries survived all persons named as parties; or

C. the personal representative, if any, or, if there is none, the heirs or devisees of a deceased party, if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing that the deceased party was the survivor of all other persons named on the account either as a party or beneficiary.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.