West Virginia Code

CHAPTER 42. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.

ARTICLE 5. UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT.

§42-5-1. No sufficient evidence of survivorship.

Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as provided otherwise in this article.

Previous§42-4-3. Repealed. Acts, 1982 Reg. Sess., Ch. 42.

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West Virginia Code

CHAPTER 42. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.

§42-5-1. No sufficient evidence of survivorship.

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