Law governing validity - choice of law as to execution of document of gift - presumption of validity

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-19-219, under REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-19-219

(a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:

(1) This part 2;

(2) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or

(3) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

(b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.

(c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-223), ch. 158, p. 550, § 1, effective August 9.