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2021 Georgia Code
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
Chapter 10 - Simultaneous Death
- § 53-10-1. Short Title
- § 53-10-2. Disposition of Property Upon Simultaneous Deaths Where Devolution Depends on Priority of Death
- § 53-10-3. Disposition of Property Upon Simultaneous Death of Beneficiary and Another Individual Where Interest Depends on Survival
- § 53-10-4. Disposition of Property Upon Simultaneous Death of Joint Owners
- § 53-10-5. Applicability of Chapter
- § 53-10-6. Uniformity of Law
Editor's notes.
- This chapter was effective January 1, 1998, to the extent that no vested rights of title, year's support, succession, or inheritance are impaired, as provided by the version of Code Section 53-1-1 enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.
Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, effective January 1, 1998, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this chapter, and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of §§ 53-10-1 through53-10-4, and was based on Ga. L. 1945, p. 167, §§ 1-7; Ga. L. 1958, p. 355, §§ 1-7; Ga. L. 1959, p. 111, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 937, § 6.
RESEARCH REFERENCESProof of Survivorship in Common Disaster, 56 POF3d 255.
U.L.A.- Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (U.L.A.) § 1 et seq.
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