technical correction; foreign personal representatives

Plain English Breakdown

The bill is labeled a technical correction but makes substantive changes to who can execute mortgage releases under specific conditions.

HB2454: Technical Correction for Foreign Estate Managers

This bill clarifies that estate managers or guardians from other states or countries can release mortgages on Arizona property if no local manager has been appointed.

What This Bill Does

• Amends section 33-710 of the Arizona Revised Statutes regarding mortgage releases.
• Allows foreign personal representatives, administrators, guardians, or conservators to sign documents that satisfy or release mortgages on Arizona property.
• Requires these managers to record an authenticated copy of their appointment with the county recorder's office first.

Who It Names or Affects

• Personal representatives or administrators for people who were not residents of Arizona at the time of death and have no local representative appointed.
• Guardians or conservators for minors appointed in another state or foreign country.
• County recorder offices where mortgage documents are filed.

Terms To Know

Foreign personal representative

A person legally named to manage an estate of someone who was not a resident of Arizona at the time of death, appointed in another state or country.

Satisfaction or deed of release

An official document that shows a mortgage debt is paid and removes the lender's claim on the property.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only applies if no personal representative has been appointed in Arizona.
• This change does not apply to people who were residents of Arizona when they died.
• The effective date is not listed in the provided text.

Official Summary Text

HB2454 - technical correction; foreign personal representatives

Current Bill Text

HB2454 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
technical correction; foreign personal representatives

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2454

Introduced by

Representative
Wilmeth

AN
ACT

amending section 33-710, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to mortgages.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 33-710, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

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33-710.

Release by foreign personal representative, administrator,
guardian or conservator

When a personal representative or administrator of the estate
of a person
who is
not a resident of this state at the
time of his death has been appointed in another state or foreign country, and
no personal representative or administrator has been appointed in this state,
or when a guardian or conservator of a minor has been appointed in another
state or foreign country, such foreign personal representative, administrator,
guardian or conservator, upon recording an authenticated copy of his
appointment in the recorder's office of the county in which the mortgage held
by the estate of the deceased person or minor is recorded, may execute
satisfaction or deeds of release of mortgages upon property located in this
state in the same manner as personal representatives, administrators, guardians
or conservators appointed in this state.
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