{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-42-5-3","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 42-5-3","heading":"Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.","body":"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.","path":["CHAPTER 42. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.","ARTICLE 5. UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/42-5-3/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:29:28Z","sha256":"8a31be5dcc1f65c0a321c138d7f9a22a2b06eec69723026580e16e2303d3d401","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-42-5-2","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-42-5-4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}