2013 District of Columbia Code
Division III — DECEDENTS' ESTATES AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONS
Title 19 — DESCENT, DISTRIBUTION, AND TRUSTS
Chapter 5 — SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS; UNIFORM LAW
Section 19-504 — Co-owners with right of survivorship; requirement of survival by 120 hours.
Except as provided in section 19-506:
(1) If it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of 2 co-owners with right of survivorship survived the other co-owner by 120 hours, one-half of the property passes as if one had survived by 120 hours and one-half as if the other had survived by 120 hours; and
(2) If there are more than 2 co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by 120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of co-owners.
History
(Apr. 27, 2001, D.C. Law 13-292, § 202, 48 DCR 2087.)
Annotations
Prior Codifications. 1981 Ed., § 19-504.
1973 Ed., § 19-504.
Legislative History of Law 13-292. For D.C. Law 13-292, see notes following § 19-501.
Editor's Notes This section was previously enacted by section 1 of Public Law 89-183, 79 Stat. 700, but repealed by implication by D.C. Law 13-292.
Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 4 of the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (1993 Act).
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