2021 Colorado Code
Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries
Article 11 - Intestate Succession and Wills
Part 5 - Wills and Will Contracts and Custody and Deposit of Wills
§ 15-11-508. Revocation by Change of Circumstances
Except as provided in sections 15-11-803 and 15-11-804 , a change of circumstances does not revoke a will or any part of it.
History. Source: L. 94: Entire part R&RE, p. 1001, § 3, effective July 1, 1995.
Editor's note:
This section is similar to former § 15-11-508 as it existed prior to 1995.
ANNOTATIONLaw reviews. For article, “Dissolution of Marriage and Estate Planning Issues”, see 18 Colo. Law. 439 (1989).
New probate code inapplicable to will automatically revoked by statute. Where decedent's will was automatically revoked by operation of statute that was in effect at the time of decedent's marriage, the new probate code did not apply to will of decedent even though he died after 1974. Phillips v. Liechty, 674 P.2d 1001 (Colo. App. 1983).
Applied in Wimbush v. Wimbush, 41 Colo. App. 289, 587 P.2d 796 (1978).