technical correction; foreign personal representatives

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide additional details about the bill's impact or limitations beyond what is stated.

Fixing a Rule for People from Other Countries

This bill changes the law to allow foreign personal representatives and other officials managing estates or minors outside Arizona to release mortgages on property within Arizona.

What This Bill Does

• Amends section 33-710 of Arizona Revised Statutes to permit foreign personal representatives, administrators, guardians, and conservators to execute satisfaction or deeds of release for mortgages held by estates or minors from other countries if they record an authenticated copy of their appointment with the county recorder's office.
• Ensures that these foreign officials can handle mortgages on property in Arizona without needing special permission.

Who It Names or Affects

• Foreign personal representatives, administrators, guardians, and conservators managing estates or minors from other countries.
• People with mortgages on their properties in Arizona whose estate managers or guardians are appointed outside the state.

Terms To Know

Personal Representative

A person legally responsible for managing and distributing a deceased person's property according to their will or state law.

Administrator

A court-appointed person who manages the estate of someone who dies without leaving a will.

Guardian

A person legally responsible for taking care of and making decisions for a minor or an adult who cannot make their own decisions.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only affects mortgages on property in Arizona.
• It does not change how foreign personal representatives, administrators, guardians, or conservators are appointed outside of Arizona.

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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