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2017 Vermont Statutes
Title 14 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 47 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
§ 623 Joint tenants
Universal Citation: 14 V.S.A. § 623
§ 623. Joint tenants
Where there is not 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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