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2018 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 85 - Simultaneous Death
Section 8503 - Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
Universal Citation: 20 PA Cons Stat § 8503 (2018)
§ 8503. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.
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 had survived. If there are more than two joint tenants, and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.
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