Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if the person had survived, except as provided otherwise in this chapter.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 31-3-102
Disposition of property where there is no sufficient evidence of survivorship
Known as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
The act spans §§ 31–31 (9 sections).
Acts 1941, ch. 59, § 1; C
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.