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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-137

Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity

Laws, 2008, ch. 561, § 19; reenacted without change, Laws, 2012, ch. 346, § 19; reenacted without change, Laws, 2014, ch. 315, § 19, eff from and after July 1, 2014.

A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:

(1) Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149;

(2) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or

(3) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.

A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.