In formal proceedings involving trusts or estates of decedents, minors, protected persons or incapacitated persons, interests to be affected must be described in pleadings that give reasonable information to owners by name or class, by reference to the instrument creating the interests or in some other appropriate manner.

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 14-1403

  • Formal proceedings: means proceedings that are conducted before a judge with notice to interested persons. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
  • Incapacitated: means lacking the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority or other disabling cause. See Arizona Laws 14-9101
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.