Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 14 > Chapter 8 - Adult Adoption

• Account: means withdrawable capital deposited with or invested in an association in accordance with any plan authorized by the provisions of this chapter unless such term is otherwise designated or qualified. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means every association to which this chapter applies as defined in the section concerning scope of chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• 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
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• 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
• Parent: includes any person entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take if the child died without a will, as a parent under this title by intestate succession from the child whose relationship is in question and excludes any person who is only a stepparent, foster parent or grandparent. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means an individual or an organization. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• plan: as used in this article means a plan for the rehabilitation, readjustment or reorganization of an association or for the readjustment, modification or reorganization of the rights or interests of any or all of the investors and creditors of, or other persons, interested in the association. See Arizona Laws 6-486
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• superintendent: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• 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