Colorado Code § 15-20-102

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(1) "Community property spouse" means an individual in a marriage or other
relationship under which community property could be acquired during the existence of the
relationship and that remains in existence at the time of death of either party to the relationship. 
(2) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic,
wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(3) "Jurisdiction" means the United States, a state, a foreign country, or a political
subdivision of a foreign country.
(4) "Partition" means to voluntarily divide property to which this act otherwise would
apply.
(5) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation,
government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.
(6) "Personal representative" means an executor, administrator, successor personal
representative, special administrator, and other person that performs substantially the same
function.
(7) "Property" means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or
personal, tangible or intangible, legal or equitable, or any interest therein.
(8) "Reclassify" means a change in the characterization or treatment of community
property to property owned separately by a community property spouse.
(9) "Record" means information inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an
electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form.
(10) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to execute or
adopt a tangible symbol or attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol.
(11) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
the United States Virgin Islands, or any other territory or possession subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States. The term includes a federally recognized Indian tribe.

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