Title 19 — Descent, Distribution, and Trusts. [Enacted title]
11 chapters · 244 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 19-301 Course of descents generally
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The real estate in the District of Columbia, of a deceased person, male or female, if not devised, shall descend in fee simple, and the surplus of the personal estate of a deceased resident of the District, if not bequeathed, shall be distributed, to the surviving spouse or survi…
D.C. Code § 19-302 Share of spouse or domestic partner
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The intestate share of a decedent’s surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner is: (1) The entire intestate estate, if no descendant or parent of the decedent survives the decedent; (2) Two-thirds of any balance of the intestate estate, if the decedent’s surviving descendants…
D.C. Code § 19-303 When surviving spouse entitled to one-third
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Repealed Repealed.
D.C. Code § 19-304 When surviving spouse entitled to one-half
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Repealed Repealed.
D.C. Code § 19-305 Distribution of surplus after payment to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner
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The surplus, above the share of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, or the whole surplus, when there is no surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, descends and is distributed as provided by this chapter and by section 19-701 .
D.C. Code § 19-306 Children to share equally
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When the intestate leaves children and no other descendants, the surplus is divided equally among them.
D.C. Code § 19-307 Grandchildren’s share
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(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, and to section 19-319, when the intestate leaves a child and a child of a deceased child, the child of the deceased child takes such share as his deceased parent would, if living, be entitled to, and every other descendant in existen…
D.C. Code § 19-308 Share of father and mother
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When the intestate leaves no child, or descendant, the whole is divided equally between the father and mother or their survivor.
D.C. Code § 19-309 Share of brother or sister or their descendants
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When the intestate leaves a brother or sister, or child or descendant of a brother or sister, and no child, descendant, or father or mother, the brother, sister, or child or descendant of a brother or sister is entitled to the whole.
D.C. Code § 19-310 Brothers and sisters to share equally
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Each brother and sister of the intestate is entitled to an equal share, and the children or descendants of a brother or sister of the intestate, stand in the place of their deceased parents respectively.
D.C. Code § 19-311 Share of collateral relations
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After children, descendants, parents, brothers, and sisters of the deceased and their descendants, all collateral relations in equal degree share, and representation among the collaterals is not allowed.
D.C. Code § 19-312 Share of grandfather and grandmother
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The grandparents, or such of them as survive, share alike where there are no collaterals.
D.C. Code § 19-313 Death of distributee before distribution
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When a person entitled to distribution dies before the distribution is made, his share goes to his estate or legal representatives.
D.C. Code § 19-314 Share of posthumous children
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A right in the inheritance to real or personal property does not accrue to or vest in a person other than the children of the intestate and their descendants, unless the person is in being and capable in law to take as heir or distributee at the time of the intestate’s death; but…
D.C. Code § 19-315 No distinction between whole- and half-blood
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There is no distinction between the kindred of the whole- and the half-blood.
D.C. Code § 19-316 Share of children born out of wedlock; their heirs; mother; father
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Children born out of wedlock and the heirs of children born out of wedlock are capable of taking real and personal estate by inheritance from their mother or from their father if parenthood has been established, or from each other, or from heirs of each other, as the case may be,…
D.C. Code § 19-317 Trust estates
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When a trustee is seized of the naked legal estate in real estate in fee simple, and dies intestate thereof, the legal estate descends according to section 19-301 to the persons who would inherit the beneficial estate if it were vested in them.
D.C. Code § 19-318 Antenuptial children
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When a man has a child by a woman whom he afterwards marries, the child, if acknowledged by the man, is, in virtue of the marriage and acknowledgment, legitimated and capable in law of inheriting and transmitting heritable property as if born in wedlock.
D.C. Code § 19-319 Advancements
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(a) If a child or descendant has been advanced by the intestate during the intestate’s lifetime, by settlement or portion, real estate or personal estate, the value thereof is reckoned for the purposes of descent and distribution as part of the estate of the intestate descendible…
D.C. Code § 19-320 Felonious homicide as barring inheritance; insurance policies; bona fide purchasers
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(a) A person convicted of felonious homicide of another person, by way of murder or manslaughter, takes no estate or interest in property of any kind from that other person by way of: (1) inheritance, distribution, devise, or bequest; or (2) remainder, reversion, or executory dev…
D.C. Code § 19-321 Descent through alien ancestor no bar
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In making title by descent it is no bar to a party claiming as heir that an ancestor, whether living or dead, through whom he derives his descent from the intestate, is or has been an alien.
D.C. Code § 19-322 Definitions
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For the purposes of this chapter, the term “domestic partner” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 32-701(3).