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Danger to others

Means that the judgment of a person who has a mental disorder is so impaired that the person is unable to understand the needs of the person for treatment and as a result of the mental disorder of the person the continued behavior of the person can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent medical opinion, to result in serious physical harm.

Danger to Self
  • Means behavior that, as a result of a mental disorder:
    • Constitutes a danger of inflicting serious physical harm on oneself, including attempted suicide or the serious threat thereof, if the threat is such that, when considered in the light of its context and in light of the individual's previous acts, it is substantially supportive of an expectation that the threat will be carried out.
    • Without hospitalization will result in serious physical harm or serious illness to the person.
  • Does not include behavior that establishes only the condition of having a grave disability.
Designated recipient

A person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.

Devise

When used as a noun, means a testamentary disposition of real or personal property and, when used as a verb, means to dispose of real or personal property by will.

Devisee

A person designated in a will to receive a devise.  In the case of a devise to an existing trust or trustee, or to a trustee on trust described by will, the trust or trustee is the devisee and the beneficiaries are not devisees.

Digital asset

An electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest.  Digital asset does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.

Disclaimant

The person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made.

Disclaimed Interest

The interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made.

Distributee

Any person who has received property of a decedent from that person's personal representative other than as a creditor or purchaser. Distributee includes a testamentary trustee only to the extent of distributed assets or increment that remains in that person's hands. A beneficiary of a testamentary trust to whom the trustee has distributed property received from a personal representative is a distributee of the personal representative. For the purposes of this paragraph, "testamentary trustee" includes a trustee to whom assets are transferred by will, to the extent of the devised assets.

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