Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 14 > Chapter 3 > Article 2 - Venue for Probate and Administration; Priority to Administer; Demand for Notice

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Application: means a written request to the registrar for an order of informal probate or appointment under chapter 3, article 3 of this title. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Child: includes a person who is entitled to take as a child under this title by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Conservator: means a person who is appointed by a court to manage the estate of a protected person. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Devisee: means a person designated in a will to receive a devise. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Formal proceedings: means proceedings that are conducted before a judge with notice to interested persons. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Guardian ad litem: includes a person who is appointed pursuant to section 14-1408. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Incapacitated person: means any person who is impaired by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, mental disorder, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication or other cause, except minority, to the extent that he lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate responsible decisions concerning his person. See Arizona Laws 14-5101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Interested person: includes any trustee, heir, devisee, child, spouse, creditor, beneficiary, person holding a power of appointment and other person who has a property right in or claim against a trust estate or the estate of a decedent, ward or protected person. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Letters: includes letters testamentary, letters of guardianship, letters of administration and letters of conservatorship. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Minor: means a person who is under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Person: means an individual or an organization. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Personal representative: includes an executor, an administrator, a successor personal representative, a special administrator and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Proceeding: includes action at law and suit in equity. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Protected person: means a minor or any other person for whom a conservator has been appointed or any other protective order has been made. See Arizona Laws 14-5101
• Special administrator: means a personal representative as described by sections 14-3614 through 14-3618. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• State: means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Arizona Laws 14-9101
• Successor personal representative: means a personal representative, other than a special administrator, who is appointed to succeed a previously appointed personal representative. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Trust: includes an express trust, private or charitable, with any additions, wherever and however created. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Ward: means a person for whom a guardian has been appointed. See Arizona Laws 14-5101
• Will: includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints an executor, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian or expressly excludes or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate succession. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215