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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 62 - South Carolina Probate Code
Chapter 1 - ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS, AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT
Section 62-1-504 - Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.
SC Code § 62-1-504 (2012) What's This?
When 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 shall be so distributed in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 539, Section 1.
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