KRS 391.020: Descent of real estate acquired from parent.

(1) When a person dies intestate and without issue, owning real estate of inheritance

which is the gift of either of his parents, the parent who made the gift, if living, shall

inherit the whole of such estate.

(2) If a person under the age of eighteen (18) di es without issue, having the title to real

estate derived by gift, devise or descent from one of his parents, the whole shall

descend to that parent and that parent's kindred, and if there is none, then in like

manner to the other parent and his kindred. T he kindred of one parent shall not be

so excluded by the kindred of the other parent, if the latter is more remote than the

grandfather, grandmother, uncles and aunts of the intestate and their descendants.