New Mexico Statutes
Subpart 3 - Protection Of Financial Institutions
Section 45-6-227 - Set-off.

Without qualifying any other statutory right to set-off or lien and subject to any contractual provision, if a party is indebted to a financial institution, the financial institution has a right to set-off against the account. The amount of the account subject to set-off is the proportion to which the party is, or immediately before death was, beneficially entitled under Section 45-6-211 NMSA 1978 or, in the absence of proof of that proportion, an equal share with all parties.
History: 1978 Comp., § 45-6-227, enacted by Laws 1992, ch. 66, § 36.

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