Section 3901 Of Part 9. California Uniform Transfers To Minors Act From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 9.
3901
. In this part:
(a) "Adult" means an individual who has attained the age of 18
years.
(b) "Benefit plan" means an employer's plan for the benefit of an
employee or partner.
(c) "Broker" means a person lawfully engaged in the business of
effecting transactions in securities or commodities for the person's
own account or for the account of others.
(d) "Conservator" means a person appointed or qualified by a court
to act as general, limited, or temporary guardian of a minor's
property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the
same functions.
(e) "Court" means the superior court.
(f) "Custodial property" means (1) any interest in property
transferred to a custodian under this part and (2) the income from
and proceeds of that interest in property.
(g) "Custodian" means a person so designated under Section 3909 or
a successor or substitute custodian designated under Section 3918.
(h) "Financial institution" means a bank, trust company, savings
institution, or credit union, chartered and supervised under state or
federal law or an industrial loan company licensed and supervised
under the laws of this state.
(i) "Legal representative" means an individual's personal
representative or conservator.
(j) "Member of the minor's family" means the minor's parent,
stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, or aunt,
whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption.
(k) "Minor" means:
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an individual who has not
attained the age of 18 years.
(2) When used with reference to the beneficiary for whose benefit
custodial property is held or is to be held, an individual who has
not attained the age at which the custodian is required under
Sections 3920 and 3920.5 to transfer the custodial property to the
beneficiary.
(l) "Person" means an individual, corporation, organization, or
other legal entity.
(m) "Personal representative" means an executor, administrator,
successor personal representative, or special administrator of a
decedent's estate or a person legally authorized to perform
substantially the same functions.
(n) "State" includes any state of the United States, the District
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or
possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.
(o) "Transfer" means a transaction that creates custodial property
under Section 3909.
(p) "Transferor" means a person who makes a transfer under this
part.
(q) "Trust company" means a financial institution, corporation, or
other legal entity, authorized to exercise general trust powers.