Rhode Island § 33-1-1 § 33-1-1. Real estate descending by intestacy to children or descendants, parents, or brothers and sisters.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 33-1-1 — § 33-1-1. Real estate descending by intestacy to children or descendants, parents, or brothers and sisters.

Rhode Island § 33-1-1

Title 33Probate practice and procedure

Ch. 33-1Rules of Descent

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-1-1 (2026).

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§ 33-1-1. Real estate descending by intestacy to children or descendants, parents, or brothers
               and sisters.
Whenever any person having title to any real estate of inheritance shall die intestate
            as to such estate, it shall descend and pass in equal portions to his or her kindred,
            in the following course:
         
(1) First to the intestate's children or their descendants, if there are any.
         
(2) Second, if there be no children nor their descendants, then to the intestate's parents
            in equal shares, or to the surviving parent.
         
(3) Third, 

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§ 33-1-1. Real estate descending by intestacy to children or descendants, parents, or brothers and sisters.

Whenever any person having title to any real estate of inheritance shall die intestate as to such estate, it shall descend and pass in equal portions to his or her kindred, in the following course:

(1) First to the intestate's children or their descendants, if there are any.

(2) Second, if there be no children nor their descendants, then to the intestate's parents in equal shares, or to the surviving parent.

(3) Third, if there is no parent, then to the intestate's brothers and sisters, and their descendants.

Legislative History

C.P.A. 1905, § 933; G.L. 1909, ch. 316, § 1; P.L. 1913, ch. 924, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 367, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 567, § 1; P.L. 1943, ch. 1283, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 33-1-1; P.L. 2014, ch. 260, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 312, § 1.