New Mexico § 45-6-222 - Payment on multiple-party account
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 45-6-222 — Payment on multiple-party account, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 45-6-222. Payment on multiple-party account
A financial institution, on request, may pay sums on deposit in a multiple-party account
to: A. one or more of the parties, whether or not another party is disabled, incapacitated
or deceased when payment is requested and whether or not the party making the request
survives another party; or B. the personal representative, if any, or, if there is none, the heirs or devisees
of a deceased party if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing
that the deceased party was the survivor of all other persons named on the account
either as a party or beneficiary, unless the account is without right of survivorship
under Section 45-6-212 NMSA 1978 .
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 45-6-222 ("Payment on multiple-party account") is part of the New Mexico Statutes Annotated, the codified statutory law of New Mexico. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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