{"data":{"id":"us-de/12-del.-c.-703","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"12 Del. C. § 703","heading":"Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.","body":"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.","path":["Title 12. Decedents’ Estates and Fiduciary Relations","Descent and Distribution; Escheat","CHAPTER 7. Simultaneous Death"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title12/c007/index.html#703","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:15Z","sha256":"93c1dd3bdc7fb58d992772cfcf7c95c9ee1252e205dbe628f1accca41e8fc148","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/12-del.-c.-702","next":"us-de/12-del.-c.-704"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}