Intestate Succession 

Massachusetts General Laws > Part II > Title II > Chapter 190A > § 1 - Simultaneous death; disposal of each person's property as if he had survived

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 8. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

  Section 1. Where title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons concerned have died otherwise than simultaneously the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

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