Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person's disposition of property and there is no sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 3B:6-3
Division of property, two or more beneficiaries
Known as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Law
The act spans §§ 3B:6-1 to 3B:6-7 (7 sections).
L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:6-3, eff
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