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§ 703

Delaware Title 12 — Delaware law

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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.45 Del. Laws, c. 234, § 3; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 703;

Source: https://delcode.delaware.gov/title12/c007/index.html· Version 2026