Loading...Download this New Mexico Last Will and Testament form which allows a testator (person who wills property upon death) to designate those people to whom the testator wants to bequest his or her real and personal property. In addition, the testator chooses an executor, or personal representative, to administer the estate before the probate court.
STATE DEFINITION
Under New Mexico law, “will” includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints a personal representative, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian or expressly excludes or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate succession. “Will” does not include a holographic will. N. M. S. A. 1978, § 45-1-201