2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 42. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION
ARTICLE 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
§42-4-2 Homicide bars acquisition of estate or insurance money.
§42-4-2. Homicide bars acquisition of estate or insurance money.
No person who has been convicted of feloniously killing
another, or of conspiracy in the killing of another, shall take or
acquire any money or property, real or personal, or interest
therein, from the one killed or conspired against, either by
descent and distribution, or by will, or by any policy or
certificate of insurance, or otherwise; but the money or the
property to which the person so convicted would otherwise have been
entitled shall go to the person or persons who would have taken the
same if the person so convicted had been dead at the date of the
death of the one killed or conspired against, unless by some rule
of law or equity the money or the property would pass to some other
person or persons.
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