2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 62 - South Carolina Probate Code
Chapter 2 - ARTICLE 2. INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS
Section 62-2-104 - Requirement that heir survive decedent for one hundred twenty hours.

Any person who fails to survive the decedent by one hundred twenty hours is deemed to have predeceased the decedent for purposes of Section 62-2-401 and intestate succession, and the decedent's heirs are determined accordingly. If the time of death of the decedent or of the person who would otherwise be an heir, or the times of death of both, cannot be determined, and it cannot be established that the person who would otherwise be an heir has survived the decedent by one hundred twenty hours, it is deemed that the person failed to survive for the required period. This section is not to be applied where its application would result in a taking of the intestate estate by the State under Section 62-1-105.

HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 539, Section 1; 1990 Act No. 521, Section 11.