There shall be no right of succession by collateral kin who are more than five degrees of kinship removed from an intestate; provided that if there is no collateral relative within the five degrees of kinship referred to herein, then collateral succession shall be unlimited to prevent any property from escheating.
History
(1959, c. 879, s. 1.)
Legal Periodicals. - For survey of 1977 law on wills, trusts and estates, see 56 N.C.L. Rev. 1152 (1978).
For note discussing the limitation on collateral inheritance in North Carolina, see 14 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1085 (1978).