2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, And Fiduciaries
Article 11. Intestate Succession and Wills
Section 15-11-206. Decedent's nonprobate transfers to the surviving spouse.

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 15-11-206 (2020)
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Excluding property passing to the surviving spouse under the federal social security system after the decedent's date of death, the value of the augmented estate includes the value of the decedent's nonprobate transfers to the decedent's surviving spouse, which consist of all property that passed outside probate at the decedent's death from the decedent to the surviving spouse by reason of the decedent's death, including:

  1. The decedent's fractional interest in property held as a joint tenant with the right ofsurvivorship, to the extent that the decedent's fractional interest passed to the surviving spouse as surviving joint tenant;

  2. The decedent's ownership interest in property or accounts held in POD, TOD, or coownership registration with the right of survivorship, to the extent the decedent's ownership interest passed to the surviving spouse as surviving co-owner; and

  3. All other property that would have been included in the augmented estate under section 15-11-205 (1) or (2) had it passed to or for the benefit of a person other than the decedent's spouse, surviving spouse, the decedent, or the decedent's creditors, estate, or estate creditors.

Source: L. 2014: Entire part R&RE, (HB 14-1322), ch. 296, p. 1226, § 2, effective August 6.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 15-11-202 (2)(c) as it existed prior to 2014.

Cross references: For protected persons and protective proceedings, see article 14 of this

title.

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