AZ HB2239

Creates a new legal framework (Title 14, Chapter 13) allowing two unmarried, unattached adults to enter into "designated beneficiary agreements" that grant each other specified rights and protections similar to spousal benefits.

Designated beneficiary agreements must be executed with notarization and recorded with the county recorder to be legally valid and enforceable, and can be revoked by either party or automatically upon marriage of either party.

Grants designated beneficiaries rights including joint property ownership with survivorship, inheritance through intestate succession, priority for appointment as guardian/conservator/personal representative, medical decision-making authority, hospital visitation, anatomical gift authority, and standing for workers' compensation and wrongful death claims.

Designated beneficiary agreements are superseded by conflicting valid legal documents such as wills, trusts, insurance beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, and marriage licenses, but control if no such superseding document exists.

Amends existing statutes governing intestate succession, personal representative priority, guardianship, conservatorship, workers' compensation death benefits, burial arrangements, and anatomical gifts to recognize designated beneficiaries in priority order.