Tennessee Statutes
§ 31-3-104 — Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
Tennessee § 31-3-104
JurisdictionTennessee
Title31
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Bluebook
Tenn. Code Ann. § 31-3-104 (2026).
Text
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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Related
Hicks v. Boshears
846 S.W.2d 812 (Tennessee Supreme Court, 1993)
In Re: Estate of Michael Denver Shell
(Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2018)
Ralph Junior Lowe v. Roy Province
(Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2021)
Heirs of Neil Ellis v. Estate of Virgie Mae Ellis
(Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2001)
Legislative History
Acts 1941, ch. 59, § 3; C. Supp. 1950, § 8407.4 (Williams, §8407.3); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 31-504.
Nearby Sections
15
§ 31-1-101
Title definitions§ 31-1-103
§ 31-1-103§ 31-1-104
Descent of homestead§ 31-1-108
Tenancies by the entirety unaffected§ 31-2-101
Intestate estate§ 31-2-102
Dower and curtesy abolished§ 31-2-103
Vesting of estate - Net estate§ 31-2-104
Share of surviving spouse and heirs§ 31-2-106
Representation§ 31-2-107
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