Md. Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 10-802
This is the official text of Md. Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 10-802, part of Maryland’s Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings — governs court structure and civil procedure.
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§10–802.
Official statutory text
Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively because of survivorship under another person’s disposition of property and there is not sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died other than simultaneously, the property disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries, and these portions shall be distributed to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.
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