CHAPTER 42. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.

ARTICLE 5. UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT.

§42-5-3. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.

Where there is no sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one half as if one had survived and one half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two joint tenants and all of them have so died the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.

Bill History For §42-5-3

1953 Regular Session
HB167