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O.C.G.A. § 53-10-1 (2019)

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Uniform Simultaneous Death Act in Georgia.’’

History

Code 1981, § 53-10-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For comment, ‘‘The Common Disaster: The Fifth Circuits Error in Estate of Carter v. United States

and the Glitch in the ‘Tax on Prior Transfer’ Credit in Valuing Life Estates Created in a Common Disaster,’’ see 40 Emory L.J. 1269 (1991).

COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-11-1. RESEARCH REFERENCES U.L.A. - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (U.L.A.) § 8.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1984–1996 · leading case: Tolbert v. Whatley, 478 S.E.2d 587 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996).
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Tolbert v. Whatley, 478 S.E.2d 587 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “See former OCGA § 53-10-1 (1995 ed.). The petition did not misrepresent the facts.”
Echols v. Hudson, 377 S.E.2d 542 (Ga. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 3× “Appellant complains on appeal, as he did below, that appellee’s petition was defective because it did not allege, as is required by OCGA § 53-10-1 (b), that the estate had no debts and that all the heirs had agreed upon a division of the estate amicably among themselves.”
Nat'l Sec. Fire & Cas. Co. v. London, 348 S.E.2d 580 (Ga. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 2× “Although no administrator was appointed, a petition pursuant to OCGA § 53-10-1 was never filed. Compare Clark v.”
Babb v. Potts, 360 S.E.2d 44 (Ga. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 53-10-1. Appellee objected, asserting that she was a creditor to whom Wilson was indebted for 54 months of room and board at $500 per month.”
Hurst v. Gray, 310 S.E.2d 524 (Ga. 1984). · cites it 4× “His wife filed a petition pursuant to OCGA § 53-10-1 (a) (Code Ann. § 113-1232) for an order of “no administration necessary” on the estate of Clarence Gray, alleging that her husband died intestate.”
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