O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-10-5 (2019)

Applicability of chapter

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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 shall not apply in the case of wills, trusts, deeds, contracts of insurance, or any other situation where provision is made for distribution of property different from that provided in this chapter or where provision is made for a presumption as to survivorship that results in a distribution of property different from that provided in this chapter.

History

Code 1981, § 53-10-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-61/HB 865.

The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, substituted ‘‘that results’’ for ‘‘which results’’ in this Code section.

Annotations

COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-11-5. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former O.C.G.A. § 53-11-5 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Cited in Fiumefreddo v. Scudder, 252 Ga. 279, 313 S.E.2d 683 (1984).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 25A C.J.S., Death, §§ 6, 7, 15, 16.

U.L.A. - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (U.L.A.) § 6.