§ 2-4-101 — Rule of descent; generally; dower and curtesy abolished

Wyoming § 2-4-101

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 02: Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code
• Ch. 4: INTESTATE SUCCESSION
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) Whenever any person having title to any real or
personal property having the nature or legal character of real
estate or personal estate undisposed of, and not otherwise
limited by marriage settlement, dies intestate, the estate shall
descend and be distributed in parcenary to his kindred, male and
female, subject to the payment of his debts, in the following
course and manner:
(i) If the intestate leaves husband or wife and
children, or the descendents of any children surviving, one-half
(1/2) of the estate shall descend to the surviving husband or
wife, and the residue thereof to the surviving children and
descendents of children, as hereinafter limited;
(ii) If the intestate leaves husband or wife and no
child nor descendents of any child, then the real and personal
estate of the intestate shall descend and vest in the surviving
husband or wife.
(A) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 135, § 2.
(B) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 135, § 2.
(iii) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 135, § 2.
(b) Dower and the tenancy by the curtesy are abolished and
neither husband nor wife shall have any share in the estate of
the other dying intestate, save as herein provided.
(c) Except in cases above enumerated, the estate of any
intestate shall descend and be distributed as follows:
(i) To his children surviving, and the descendents of
his children who are dead, the descendents collectively taking
the share which their parents would have taken if living;
(ii) If there are no children, nor their descendents,
then to his father, mother, brothers and sisters, and to the
descendents of brothers and sisters who are dead, the
descendents collectively taking the share which their parents
would have taken if living, in equal parts;
(iii) If there are no children nor their descendents,
nor father, mother, brothers, sisters, nor descendents of
deceased brothers and sisters, nor husband nor wife, living,
then to the grandfather, grandmother, uncles, aunts and their
descendents, the descendents taking collectively, the share of
their immediate ancestors, in equal parts.