Arizona Laws 44-1003. Value
A. Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise to furnish support to the debtor or another person unless the promise is made in the ordinary course of the promisor’s business.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 44-1003
- Asset: means property of a debtor, but asset does not include any of the following:
(a) Property to the extent it is encumbered by a valid lien. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
- Debt: means liability on a claim. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
- Debtor: means a person who is liable on a claim. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
- Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
- Transfer: means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset and includes payment of money, release, lease and creation of a lien or other encumbrance. See Arizona Laws 44-1001
B. For the purposes of section 44-1004, subsection A, paragraph 2 and section 44-1005, a person gives a reasonably equivalent value if the person acquires an interest of the debtor in an asset pursuant to a regularly conducted, noncollusive foreclosure sale or execution of a power of sale for the acquisition or disposition of the interest of the debtor on default under a mortgage, deed of trust or security agreement.
C. A transfer is made for present value if the exchange between the debtor and the transferee is intended by them to be contemporaneous and is in fact substantially contemporaneous.