If the decedent leaves a child, or children, or issue of a previously deceased child or children, and no spouse, all his or her property shall pass to the surviving child, or in equal shares to the surviving children and the living issue, if any, of a previously deceased child, but such issue shall collectively take only the share their parent would have taken had such parent been living. If the decedent leaves such child, children, or issue, and a spouse, one-half of such property shall pass to such child, children, and issue as aforesaid.
K.S.A. 59-506
Surviving children or issue
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Walker v. Corizon Health, Inc. (2019)
Most recently applied in Walker v. Corizon Health, Inc. (February 2019)
L. 1939, ch. 180, § 28; July 1.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.