Delaware Statutes

§ 703 — Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety

Delaware·Title 12·Part Descent and Distribution; Escheat·Ch. 7 SIMULTANEOUS DEATH
Where there is no sufficient evidence that 2 joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one half as if 1 had survived and one half as if the other had survived. If there are more than 2 joint tenants and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that 1 bears to the whole number of joint tenants.

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Legislative History

45 Del. Laws, c. 234, § 3 ; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 703

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