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Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 5. THE GEORGIA TRANSFERS TO MINORS ACT

44-5-111. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    ‘‘Adult’’ means an individual who has attained the age of 21 years.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘Benefit plan’’ means an employer’s plan for the benefit of an employee or partner or an individual retirement account.#

  4. (3)

    ‘‘Broker’’ means a person lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities or commodities for the person’s own account or for the account of others.#

  5. (4)

    ‘‘Court’’ means the probate court in the county where the minor resides, or, if the minor is not a resident of this state, the probate court in the county where the custodian resides or has his principal place of business or where the custodial property is located.#

  6. (5)

    ‘‘Custodial property’’ means any interest in property transferred to a custodian under the authority of this article and the income from and proceeds of that interest in property.#

  7. (6)

    ‘‘Custodian’’ means a person so designated under Code Section 44-5-119 or a successor or substitute custodian designated under Code Section 44-5-128.#

  8. (7)

    ‘‘Financial institution’’ means a bank, trust company, national banking association, industrial bank, savings institution, or credit union chartered and supervised under state or federal law.#

  9. (8)

    ‘‘Guardian’’ means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as general, limited, or temporary guardian of a minor’s property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.#

  10. (9)

    ‘‘Legal representative’’ means an individual’s personal representative or guardian.#

  11. (10)

    ‘‘Member of the minor’s family’’ means the minor’s parent, stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, or aunt, whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption.#

  12. (11)

    ‘‘Minor’’ means an individual who has not attained the age of 21 years.#

  13. (12)

    ‘‘Person’’ means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity.#

  14. (13)

    ‘‘Personal representative’’ means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, or special administrator of a decedent’s estate or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.#

  15. (14)

    ‘‘State’’ includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.#

  16. (15)

    ‘‘Transfer’’ means a transaction that creates custodial property under Code Section 44-5-119.#

  17. (16)

    ‘‘Transferor’’ means a person who makes a transfer under the authority of this article.#

  18. (17)

    ‘‘Trust company’’ means a financial institution, corporation, or other legal entity authorized to exercise general trust powers in this state.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 44-5-111, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 667, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, pages 479 to 481; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.