2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 190A EFFECT OF APPARENTLY SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS UPON DEVOLUTION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY, INCLUDING PROCEEDS OF INSURANCE
Section 3 Joint tenants or tenants by entirety
[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 8. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]
Section 3. 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 survived. Where more than two joint tenants have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be divided into as many equal shares as there were joint tenants and the share allocable to each shall be distributed as if he had survived all the others.
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