# C.R.S. § 15-11-201: 15-11-201. Definitions > Colorado · Statutes · Reserved URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CO_T15_A11_P2_S15-11-201 ## Section - **Citation:** C.R.S. § 15-11-201 - **Heading:** 15-11-201. Definitions - **Jurisdiction:** Colorado - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** Reserved - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** CO Code / Title 15 / Article 11 / Part 2 / Section 15-11-201 ## Text 15-11-201. Definitions. (1) "Bona fide purchaser" means a purchaser for value in good faith and without notice of an adverse claim. The notation of a state documentary fee on a recorded instrument pursuant to section 39-13-103, C.R.S., is prima facie evidence that the transfer described therein was made to a bona fide purchaser. (2) "Decedent's nonprobate transfers to others" means amounts that are included in the augmented estate under section 15-11-205. (3) "Fractional interest in property held in joint tenancy with the right of survivorship", whether the fractional interest is unilaterally severable or not, and if the interests are equal, means the fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which, if the decedent was a joint tenant, is one plus the number of joint tenants who survive the decedent and which, if the decedent was not a joint tenant, is the number of joint tenants. If the interests are unequal, "fractional interest in property held in joint tenancy with the right of survivorship" means the decedent's interest immediately preceding the decedent's death. (4) "Marriage", as it relates to a transfer by the decedent during marriage, means any marriage of the decedent to the decedent's surviving spouse. (5) "Nonadverse party" means a person who does not have a substantial beneficial interest in the trust or other property arrangement that would be adversely affected by the exercise or nonexercise of the power that he or she possesses respecting the trust or other property arrangement. A person having a general power of appointment over property is deemed to have a beneficial interest in the property. (6) "Power" or "power of appointment" includes a power to designate the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation, including beneficiary designations under individual retirement accounts and annuities described in section 408 of the federal "Internal Revenue Code of 1986", as amended, as well as other pension plans or arrangements not subject to part 2 (section 201 et seq.) of the federal "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974", as amended (29 U.S.C. sec. 1051 et seq.). (7) "Presently exercisable general power of appointment" means a power of appointment under which, at the time in question, the decedent held a power to create a present or future interest in the decedent, the decedent's creditors, the decedent's estate, or creditors of the decedent's estate, whether or not the decedent then had the capacity to exercise the power. The term includes a power to revoke or invade the principal of a trust or other property arrangement. (8) "Property" includes values subject to a beneficiary designation. (9) "Right to income" includes a right to payments under a commercial or private annuity, an annuity trust, a unitrust, or a similar arrangement. (10) "Transfer", as it relates to a transfer by or on behalf of the decedent, includes: (a) An exercise or release of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the decedent; (b) A lapse at death of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the decedent; and (c) An exercise, release, or lapse of a presently exercisable general power of appointment that the decedent reserved or of a power described in section 15-11-205 (2)(b) that the decedent conferred on a nonadverse party. (11) "Value", unless otherwise indicated, means fair market value as of the decedent's date of death. ## Nearby sections - [C.R.S. § 15-11-201 15-11-201. Definitions](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CO_T15_A11_P2_S15-11-201.md) - [C.R.S. § 15-11-202 15-11-202. Elective-share](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CO_T15_A11_P2_S15-11-202.md) - [C.R.S. § 15-11-203 15-11-203. 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