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§ 8503. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 20 Pa.C.S.A. Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 20 Pa.C.S.A. Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 85. Simultaneous Death (Refs & Annos)
20 Pa.C.S.A. § 8503
§ 8503. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
Where there is no sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed, one-half as if one had survived, and one-half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two 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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1972, June 30, P.L. 508, No. 164, § 2, eff. July 1, 1972.
20 Pa.C.S.A. § 8503, PA ST 20 Pa.C.S.A. § 8503
Current through the end of the 2023 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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