Probate

Property of an estate of the decendant that is described in Arizona Revised Statutes, Section 14-2403.

A personal representative, guardian, conservator and trustee.

An organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to financial institutions and includes a bank, trust company, savings bank, building and loan association, savings and loan company or association and credit union.

A personal representative appointed by another jurisdiction.

A deed, will, trust, insurance or annuity policy, account with pay on death designation, security registered in beneficiary form, pension, profit sharing, retirement or similar benefit plan, instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney or a dispositive, appointive or nominative instrument of any similar type.

A condition evidenced by behavior in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is likely to come to serious physical harm or serious illness because the person is unable to provide for the person's own basic physical needs.

A person who is authorized to make health care treatment decisions for the patient.

A health care provider, the department, the administration or a regional behavioral health authority under contract with the administration.

A health care institution as defined in Arizona Revised Statutes, Section 36-401 that is licensed as a behavioral health provider pursuant to department rules or a mental health provider.

Except as controlled by Arizona Revised Statutes, Section 14-2711, means persons, including the surviving spouse and the state, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent.

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.

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.

Money or property that a fiduciary receives as current return from a principal asset and includes a portion of receipts from a sale, exchange or liquidation of a principal asset, to the extent provided in Arizona Revised Statutes, Chapter 7, Sections 14-7410 through 14-7424.

A person to whom net income of a trust is or may be payable.

The right of an income beneficiary to receive all or part of net income, whether the terms of the trust require it to be distributed or authorize it to be distributed in the discretion of the trustee.

A licensed physician, psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner or psychologist selected by the person to be evaluated or by the attorney of such person.

Proceedings conducted without notice to interested persons by an officer of the court acting as a registrar for probate of a will or appointment of a personal representative.

A voluntary decision following presentation of all facts necessary to form the basis of an intelligent consent by the patient or guardian with no minimizing of known dangers of any procedures.

A hospital that contains an organized psychiatric services unit or a special hospital that is licensed to provide psychiatric services.

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.  Interested person also includes a person who has priority for appointment as personal representative and other fiduciaries representing interested persons.  Interested person, as the term relates to particular persons, may vary from time to time and must be determined according to the particular purposes of, and matter involved in, any proceeding.