Title 15 — Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
24 chapters · 422 sections in this title.
15 V.I.C. § 81 Definitions and use of terms; effect of chapter
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(a) The term “real property” as used in this chapter, includes every estate, interest and right, legal and equitable, in lands, tenements and hereditaments, except such as are determined or extinguished by the death of an intestate, seized or possessed thereof, or in any manner e…
15 V.I.C. § 82 Modes, rules, and canons of descent abolished
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All existing modes, rules and canons of descent are hereby abolished. The determination of the degree of consanguinity of distributees of real and personal property shall be uniform, and shall be in accordance with the rules as applied immediately before the taking effect of this…
15 V.I.C. § 83 Dower and curtesy abolished; provisions in lieu thereof
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The shares of the surviving spouse as to real property as provided in this chapter and in section 10 of this title are in lieu of all rights of dower or curtesy therein. All rights of dower or curtesy in the estate of any person who dies after the effective date of this Code are …
15 V.I.C. § 84 Descent and distribution of estate of decedent
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(1) The real property of a deceased person, male or female, not devised, shall descend, and the surplus of his or her personal property, after payment of debts and legacies, and if not bequeathed, shall be distributed to the surviving spouses, children, or next of kin or other pe…
15 V.I.C. § 85 Advancements of real and personal estates
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If a child of an intestate shall have been advanced by him, by settlement or portion, real or personal property, the value thereof must be reckoned for the purposes of descent and distribution as part of the real and personal property of the intestate descendible and to be distri…
15 V.I.C. § 86 How advancement adjusted
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When an advancement to be adjusted consisted of real property, the adjustment must be made out of the real property descendible to the distributees. When it consisted of personal property, the adjustment must be made out of the surplus of the personal property to be distributed t…
15 V.I.C. § 87 Effect of divorce, abandonment, or refusal to support upon rights to distributive share
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(1) No distributive share of the estate of a decedent shall be allowed under the provisions of this chapter, either—(1) to a spouse against whom or in whose favor a final decree or judgment of divorce recognized as valid by the law of this territory has been rendered; or(2) to a …
15 V.I.C. § 88 Simultaneous deaths
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(a) Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as otherwise provi…
15 V.I.C. § 89 Payment of certain debts and funeral expense without administration
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(a) As used in this section— “debt” means (1) money payable on account of a deposit in a bank, national bank, trust company, savings bank, industrial bank, territorial or federal savings and loan association or territorial or federal credit union, or with a private banker payable…