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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 397 UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT
397.1002 Requirement of survival by one hundred twenty (120) hours.
Download pdfthe right to elect an interest in property, or the right to exempt property, homestead, or
family allowance depends upon an individual's survivorship of the death of another
individual, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have
survived the other individual by one hundred twenty (120) hours is deemed to have
predeceased the other individual. This section shall not apply if its application would
result in a taking of intestate estate by the state. Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 415, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998.
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