In the fall of 2024, the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) mailed letters to parents who once had an open dependency and/or severance case.
Did you receive a letter? Visit the DCS letter page for more information.
Probate
Glossaries
| Term | Main definition |
|---|---|
| Screening agency | A health care agency that is licensed by the department and that provides those services required of such agency by this chapter. |
| Securities | Any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under that title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share or voting trust certificate and, in general, includes any interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or any certificate of interest or participation, any temporary or interim certificate, receipt or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of these securities. |
| Security account | A reinvestment account associated with a security, a securities account with a broker, a cash balance in a brokerage account, cash, interest, earnings or dividends earned or declared on a security in an account, a reinvestment account or a brokerage account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner's death. |
| Separate property | That property of a husband or wife that is the separate property of the spouse as defined in Arizona Revised Statutes, Section 25-213. |
| Settlor | A person, including a testator, who creates or contributes property to a trust. If more than one person creates or contributes property to a trust, each person is a settlor of the portion of the trust property attributable to that person's contribution except to the extent another person has the power to revoke or withdraw that portion. |
| Significant relationship | The person either is related to the ward by blood or marriage or is a close friend of the ward as established by a history of pattern and practice. |
| Social worker | A person who has completed two years of graduate training in social work in a program approved by the council of social work education and who has experience in mental health. |
| Special administrator | |
| Special needs trust | A trust established for the benefit of one or more persons with disabilities if one of the purposes of the trust, expressed in the trust instrument or implied from the trust instrument, is to allow the person with a disability to qualify or continue to qualify for public, charitable or private benefits that might otherwise be available to the person with a disability. The existence of one or more remainder beneficiaries without a disability of the trust shall not disqualify it as a special needs trust for the purposes of this paragraph. For the purposes of this paragraph, "person with a disability" means an individual who has a disability pursuant to 42 United States Code section 1382c. |
| Spendthrift provision | A term of a trust that restrains either voluntary or involuntary transfer of the interest of the beneficiary. |
| Street name | Registration used by a broker or financial institution for holding securities if they are not registered in the name of the beneficial owner. |
| Successor personal representative | A personal representative, other than a special administrator, who is appointed to succeed a previously appointed personal representative. |
| Successors | Persons, other than creditors, who are entitled to property of a decedent under a will or this title. |
| Sums on deposit | The balance payable on an account, including interest and dividends earned, whether or not included in the current balance and any deposit life insurance proceeds added to the account by reason of death of a person. |
| Survive |