2015 Tennessee Code
Title 31 - Descent And Distribution
Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
§ 31-3-104 - Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.
Where there is no sufficient evidence that two (2) joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one-half (1/2) as if one had survived and one-half (1/2) as if the other had survived. If there are more than two (2) 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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