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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 563:4: Co-Owners with Right of Survivorship; Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours.

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  1. Title LVI: PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES
  2. Chapter 563: UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT

Except as provided in RSA 563:6, if:

I. It is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of 2 co-owners with right of survivorship survived the other co-owner by 120 hours, 1/2 of the property passes as if one had survived by 120 hours and 1/2 as if the other had survived by 120 hours; and

II. There are more than 2 co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by 120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of co-owners.

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