Where there is no sufficient evidence that two (2) joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one-half (½) as if one had survived and one-half (½) as if the other had survived. If there are more than two (2) joint tenants and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 31-3-104
Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
Known as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
The act spans §§ 31–31 (9 sections).
Acts 1941, ch. 59, § 3; C
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