Section 34-7-9 - Probate judge interested or disqualified; transfer to district court. - New Mexico Statutes

34-7-9. [Probate judge interested or disqualified; transfer to district court.]

Whenever the probate judge shall, for any reason, be interested or disqualified from acting in any proceeding coming within the jurisdiction of the probate court, he shall upon his own motion or that of any interested party, forthwith enter an order transferring such proceeding to the district court having jurisdiction in that county and directing the probate clerk to deposit forthwith within the office of the clerk of said district court a certified copy of said order together with all original papers and records or certified copies of all original papers and records in the probate court relating to said proceeding.