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Delaware · Through 2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424) · Newer source version available

12 Del. C. § 703: Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.

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  1. Title 12. Decedents’ Estates and Fiduciary Relations
  2. Descent and Distribution; Escheat
  3. CHAPTER 7. Simultaneous Death

Where there is no sufficient evidence that 2 joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one half as if 1 had survived and one half as if the other had survived. If there are more than 2 joint tenants and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that 1 bears to the whole number of joint tenants.

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