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Statutes > Missouri > T31 > C471 > 471_030Joint tenants or tenants by entirety.
471.030. Where there is no sufficient evidence that twojoint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise thansimultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one-halfas if one had survived and one-half as if the other had survived.If there are more than two joint tenants and all of them have sodied the property thus distributed shall be in the proportionthat one bears to the whole number of joint tenants. The term"joint tenants" includes owners of property held undercircumstances which entitled one or more to the whole of theproperty on the death of the other or others.
(L. 1947 V. I p. 13 § 3, A.L. 1959 S.B. 120)
