Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY Chapter 474 Effective - 01 Jan 1981, see footnote 474.455. Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator — exceptions. — A devisee who does not survive the testator by one hundred twenty hours is treated as if he predeceased the testator, unless the will of decedent contains some language dealing explicitly with simultaneous deaths or deaths in a common disaster, or requiring that the devisee survive the testator or survive the testator for a stated period in order to take under the will. -------- (L. 1980 S.B. 637) Effective 1-01-81
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