{"id":49068,"date":"2021-01-22T14:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-welcomes-back-familiar-face-for-probate-judge-position\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:57:25","slug":"san-juan-county-welcomes-back-familiar-face-for-probate-judge-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-welcomes-back-familiar-face-for-probate-judge-position\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan County welcomes back familiar face for probate judge position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5184cc27-9d63-4677-9ecc-91894bae3d3c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Gary Risley is sworn in as probate judge to take over a two-year term vacancy.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gary Risley is sworn in as probate judge to take over a two-year term vacancy.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan County<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 The San Juan County court system had a familiar face take over a vacant position as Gary Risley was sworn in Jan. 4 to serve as probate judge.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County commissioners selected Risley out of a large pool of applicants to nominate for the position alongside one other person, according to a news release from San Juan County. Risley was chosen based on a 4-1 vote of the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Risley will replace Stacey Biel, who was elected to a magistrate judge position in November. He will serve the remainder of her two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe probate judge position fits well within the primary areas of my legal practice which include, estate planning, probate, business law and real estate,\u201d Risley said in the release. \u201cThe probate judge position, which is part-time, is one of the few judicial positions that will allow me to maintain my legal practice while serving as a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Risley previously served two terms as probate judge, which pushed him to his term limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the confidence placed in me by the San Juan County commissioners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The office of probate judge handles informal probate proceedings, such as gathering assets, paying bills and transferring the property of someone who has died \u201cso that title to the decedent\u2019s property may be legally vest in his or her heirs as provided in a will or by state law,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be his third time in the role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,28,1515,138,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-judiciary-system-of-justice","tag-new-mexico","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49068"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}