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2018 Georgia Code 53-4-72 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 53 WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Section 4. Wills, 53-4-1 through 53-4-75.

ARTICLE 6 CONSTRUCTION OF WILL; TESTAMENTARY GIFTS

53-4-72. Passing of after-acquired property.

All property owned by the testator at death that was acquired subsequent to the making of a will shall pass under the will if the provisions of the will are sufficiently broad to embrace the property.

(Code 1981, §53-4-72, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.)

COMMENT

This section carries over former OCGA Sec. 53-2-117. Former OCGA Sec. 53-2-116 (relating to compensatory devises to executors) is repealed.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code 1863, § 2429, former Code 1868, § 2425, former Code 1882, § 2461, and former O.C.G.A. § 53-2-117 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Cited in Jones v. Shewmake, 35 Ga. 151 (1866); Gibbon v. Gibbon, 40 Ga. 562 (1869); Morgan v. Huggins, 42 F. 869 (N.D. Ga. 1890); Barber v. Warren, 271 Ga. 75, 515 S.E.2d 153 (1999).

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