Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 41B - Action Against Killer of Decedent for Forfeiture of Certain Property, Benefits and Rights
NRS 41B.090 - "Governing instrument" defined.

"Governing instrument" means any of the following:
1. A deed or any other instrument that transfers any property, interest or benefit.
2. An annuity or a policy of insurance.
3. A trust, whether created by an instrument executed during the life of the settlor, a testamentary instrument or any other instrument, judgment or decree, including, without limitation, any of the following:
(a) An express trust, whether private or charitable, and any additions to such a trust.
(b) A trust created or determined by a judgment or decree under which the trust is to be administered in the manner of an express trust.
4. A will, a codicil or any other testamentary instrument, including, without limitation, a testamentary instrument that:
(a) Appoints a person to serve in a fiduciary or representative capacity, nominates a guardian or revokes or revises another will, codicil or testamentary instrument; or
(b) Excludes or limits the right of a person or class of persons to succeed to any property, interest or benefit pursuant to the laws of intestate succession.
5. Any account or deposit that is payable or transferable on the death of a person or any instrument that provides for the payment or transfer of any property, interest or benefit on the death of a person.
6. A security registered as transferable on the death of a person.
7. Any instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a durable or nondurable power of attorney.
8. Any instrument that appoints or nominates a person to serve in any fiduciary or representative capacity, including, without limitation, an agent, guardian, executor, personal representative or trustee.
9. Any public or private plan or system that entitles a person to the payment or transfer of any property, interest or benefit, including, without limitation, a plan or system that involves any of the following:
(a) Pension benefits, retirement benefits or other similar benefits.
(b) Profit-sharing or any other form of participation in profits, revenues, securities, capital or assets.
(c) Industrial insurance, workers’ compensation or other similar benefits.
(d) Group insurance.
10. A partnership agreement or an agreement concerning any joint adventure, enterprise or venture.
11. A premarital, antenuptial or postnuptial agreement, a marriage contract or settlement or any other similar agreement, contract or settlement.
12. Any instrument that declares a homestead pursuant to chapter 115 of NRS.
13. Any other dispositive, appointive, nominative or declarative instrument.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 1349; A 2011, 1417)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 41B - Action Against Killer of Decedent for Forfeiture of Certain Property, Benefits and Rights

NRS 41B.010 - Definitions.

NRS 41B.020 - "Acquitted" defined.

NRS 41B.030 - "Agent" defined.

NRS 41B.040 - "Beneficiary" defined.

NRS 41B.050 - "Community property" defined.

NRS 41B.060 - "Community property with right of survivorship" defined.

NRS 41B.070 - "Convicted" and "conviction" defined.

NRS 41B.080 - "Culpable actor in the felonious and intentional killing of a decedent" defined.

NRS 41B.090 - "Governing instrument" defined.

NRS 41B.100 - "Interest" defined.

NRS 41B.110 - "Interested person" defined.

NRS 41B.120 - "Joint tenants with right of survivorship" defined.

NRS 41B.130 - "Killer" defined.

NRS 41B.140 - "Payor" defined.

NRS 41B.150 - "Person" defined.

NRS 41B.160 - "Property" defined.

NRS 41B.200 - General rule; killer cannot profit or benefit from wrong; anti-lapse statute and right of representation; contingent, residuary and other beneficiaries; common law.

NRS 41B.210 - Acts constituting felonious and intentional killing; insanity or diminished capacity.

NRS 41B.250 - Criminal action: Conclusive effect of judgment of conviction; admissibility of judgment of conviction in civil action.

NRS 41B.260 - Civil action: Parties; burden of proof; evidence; stay of proceedings; limitation on time for commencement.

NRS 41B.300 - Estate of decedent.

NRS 41B.310 - Governing instruments.

NRS 41B.320 - Community property with right of survivorship and joint tenants with right of survivorship.

NRS 41B.330 - Action for wrongful death.

NRS 41B.400 - Payor or other third person who pays or transfers forfeited property, interest or benefit.

NRS 41B.410 - Person who acquires or receives forfeited property, interest or benefit without legal right or authorization.

NRS 41B.420 - Killer who transfers forfeited property, interest or benefit to third person; effect of preemption by federal law.