O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-4-72 (2019)

Passing of after-acquired property

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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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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.

History

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

Annotations

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 Former OCGA Sec. 53-2-116 (relating to compensatory devises to executors) is repealed.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).