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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 45 - Uniform Probate Code
Section 2 Intestate Succession and Wills
Section 8 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 45-2-808 Validity and effect of will executed by a wife prior to July 1, 1973.
NM Stat § 45-2-808 (2014) What's This?
45-2-808. Validity and effect of will executed by a wife prior to July 1, 1973.
If a wife has executed a will prior to July 1, 1973, which remains unrevoked or unamended and in which she has not exercised a power of testamentary disposition over her one-half interest in the community property by specific reference thereto and affirmative disposition thereof, her interest in the community property goes to her surviving husband. The wife's will shall be valid in disposing of any other property over which she has testamentary disposition notwithstanding her legal disability under prior law to exercise a power of testamentary disposition of her interest in the community property.
History: 1953 Comp., 29-1-32, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 276, 8; 1978 Comp., 45-8-9, recompiled as 1978 Comp., 45-2-806 by Laws 1993, ch. 174, 65; recompiled as 1978 Comp., 45-2-808 by Laws 2011, ch. 124, 33.
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