Georgia Statutes
§ 44-6-66 — Preference for vested remainders; construction of words of survivorship in wills
Georgia·Title 44
The law favors the vesting of remainders in all cases of doubt. In construing wills, words of survivorship shall refer to those survivors living at the time of the death of the testator in order to vest remainders unless a manifest intention to the contrary shall appear.
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