Uniform Simultaneous Death Law
Mississippi · Trusts and Estates · §§ 91-3-1 to 91-3-9 · 8 sections
Overview
The act governs how property is distributed when two or more people die under circumstances that make it impossible to determine who survived whom. It supplies default rules of construction for that situation, with separate treatment for property passing to beneficiaries under another person's disposition, for life insurance policies and similar contracts, and for property held in joint tenancy or by the entirety. These rules function only as gap-fillers — a contrary provision in a will or other governing instrument displaces them — and they reach only deaths occurring after the act takes effect.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 840 So. 2d 703 - In Re Estate of Miller
Sections covered
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-1How chapter cited2 cites
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-11Insurance policies or contracts1 cite
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-13Chapter not to apply to persons dying before effective date
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-15Provision in will, etc., rendering chapter inapplicable1 cite
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-3Construction1 cite
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-5Disposition of property in absence of evidence of survivorship1 cite
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-7Beneficiaries of another person’s disposition of property
- Miss. Code Ann. § 91-3-9Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
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