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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates (Chs. 1 — 17)
Chapter 10 - Simultaneous Death (§§ 53-10-1 — 53-10-6)
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Editor’s notes.This chapter was effective January 1, 1998, to the extent that no vested rights of title, year’s support, succession, or inheritance are impaired, as provided by the version of Code Section 53-1-1 enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.
Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, effective January 1, 1998, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this chapter, and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of §§ 53-10-1 through 53-10-4, and was based on Ga. L. 1945, p. 167, §§ 1-7; Ga. L. 1958, p. 355, §§ 1-7; Ga. L. 1959, p. 111, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 937, § 6.
Research References & Practice Aids
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Proof of Facts. —Proof of Survivorship in Common Disaster, 56 POF3d 255.
U.L.A.Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (U. L. A.) § 1 et seq.
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- § 53-10-1. Short title
- § 53-10-2. Disposition of property upon simultaneous deaths where devolution depends on priority of death
- § 53-10-3. Disposition of property upon simultaneous death of beneficiary and another individual where interest depends on survival
- § 53-10-4. Disposition of property upon simultaneous death of joint owners
- § 53-10-5. Applicability of chapter
- § 53-10-6. Uniformity of law
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