55-16-1. Definitions. Terms used in this chapter mean:

(1) "Claim," a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured;

(2) "Creditor," with respect to a transferor, a person who has a claim;

(3) "Debt," liability on a claim;

(4) "Disposition," a transfer, conveyance, or assignment of property, including a change in the legal ownership of property occurring upon the substitution of one trustee for another or the addition of one or more new trustees, or the exercise of a power so as to cause a transfer of property to a trustee or trustees. The term does not include the release or relinquishment of an interest in property that theretofore was the subject of a qualified disposition;

(5) "Property," real property, personal property, and interests in real or personal property;

(6) "Qualified disposition," a disposition by or from a transferor to a qualified person or qualified persons, without consideration or for less than fair market value, by means of a trust instrument;

(7) "Spouse" and "former spouse," only persons to whom the transferor was married at, or before, the time the qualified disposition is made;

(8) "Transferor," any person as an owner of property; as a holder of a power of appointment which authorizes the holder to appoint in favor of the holder, the holder's creditors, the holder's estate, or the creditors of the holder's estate; or as a trustee, directly or indirectly, makes a disposition or causes a disposition to be made.

The terms, transferor and beneficiary, may be any person as defined in subdivision 55-4-1(2).

Source: SL 2005, ch 261, § 1; SL 2015, ch 240, § 20; SL 2018, ch 275, § 28.