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New Mexico · Through 2024-09-06

45-5B-118: Agent's resignation; notice.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Chapter 45 - Uniform Probate Code
  2. ARTICLE 5B Uniform Power of Attorney

Unless the power of attorney provides a different method for an agent's resignation, an agent may resign by giving notice to the principal and, if the principal is incapacitated:

(1) to the conservator or guardian, if one has been appointed for the principal, and a co-agent or successor agent; or

(2) if there is no person described in Paragraph (1) of this subsection, to:

(a) the principal's caregiver;

(b) another person reasonably believed by the agent to have sufficient interest in the principal's welfare; or

(c) a governmental agency having authority to protect the welfare of the principal.

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