When someone dies, Colorado law sets out who is entitled to serve as your personal representative and in what order (the order of priority). The priority order applies equally to testate estates (with a will) and intestate estates (without a will). Currently, the following persons are entitled to serve as your personal representative, in descending order:
- The person with priority as determined by a probated will, including a person nominated by a power conferred in a will;
- The surviving spouse of the decedent who is a devisee of the decedent;
- The surviving party to a civil union entered into in accordance with article 15 of title 14, C.R.S., who is a devisee of the decedent;
- A person given priority to be a personal representative in a designated beneficiary agreement;
- Other devisees of the decedent;
- The surviving spouse of the decedent;
- The surviving party to a civil union entered into in accordance with article 15 of title 14, C.R.S.;
- Other heirs of the decedent;
- Forty-five days after the death of the decedent, any creditor.
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