N.M. Stat. § 45-2A-9
Trust if child under specified age.
A. If property is distributable under Section 8 [45-2A-8 NMSA 1978] or Subsection D
of Section 7 [45-2A-7 NMSA 1978] of the Uniform Statutory Will Act to a child of the
testator who is under the age specified in the will or, if the will does not specify an age,
under the age of twenty-three years, all shares distributable to issue of the testator must
be held in a trust under this section. In exercising powers under Subsections B and C of
this section, primary consideration must be given to the needs of children of the testator
who are under the age of twenty-three years or under disability.
B. Until no living child of the testator is under the age determined under Subsection
A of this section, the trustee shall pay the income and principal of the trust to or for the
benefit or account of one or more of the issue of the testator in amounts the trustee
deems advisable for their needs for health, education, support or maintenance. Income
not so paid may be added to principal.
C. The trustee at any time in its discretion may distribute to a beneficiary the share,
in whole or in part, of the trust to which the distributee would be entitled if the trust then
terminated. If the whole of a share has been distributed under this subsection, the
trustee thereafter must not make any further distribution of income or principal to that
distributee or issue of that distributee.
D. The trust terminates when no living child of the testator is under the age
determined under Subsection A of this section or the trustee determines that
continuation of the trust is uneconomical.
E. Subject to section 10 [45-2A-10 NMSA 1978] of the Uniform Statutory Will Act
and Subsection C of this section, the property in the trust must be distributed upon
termination to the issue of the testator in proportion to the shares determined at the
death of the surviving spouse under Subsection D of Section 7 of the Uniform Statutory
Will Act, or at the death of the testator under Section 8 of that act if there is no surviving
spouse. In determining the amount to be distributed to any distributee, the trustee shall
charge the share of that distributee with any partial distribution made under Subsection
C of this section and may charge, in its discretion, the share of that distributee with
distributions under Subsection B of this section to or for the benefit or account of the
distributee, or issue or ancestor of the distributee. If any issue whose share is held in
trust under this section dies before the complete distribution of the share, the property to
which the issue would have been entitled if living must be distributed to the assignees,
or, if none, to the estate of the deceased issue.
F. If an issue is serving as trustee, the discretion of the trustee under this section is
not exercisable, except as necessary for that individual's needs for health, education,
support or maintenance, in favor of that individual, that individual's estate, that
individual's creditors or the creditors of that individual's estate.