§42-3-6. Charging Spouse With Owned Assets and Gifts Received; Liability of Others for Balance of Elective Share
(a) In a proceeding for an elective share, the following are applied first to satisfy the elective-share amount and to reduce or eliminate any contributions due from the decedent's probate estate and recipients of the decedent's reclaimable estate: (1) Amounts included in the augmented estate which pass or have passed to the surviving spouse by […]
§42-3-7. Entitlement of Spouse; Premarital Will
(a) If a testator's surviving spouse married the testator after the testator executed his or her will, the surviving spouse is entitled to receive, as an intestate share no less than the value of the share of the estate he or she would have received if the testator had died intestate as to that portion […]
§42-4-2. Homicide Bars Acquisition of Estate or Insurance Money
(a) A person who has been convicted of feloniously killing another, or of conspiracy in the killing of another, may not take or acquire any money or property, real or personal, or interest in the money or property, from the one killed or conspired against, either by descent and distribution, or by will, or by […]
§42-5-1. No Sufficient Evidence of Survivorship
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 provided otherwise in this article.
§42-5-2. Beneficiaries of Another Person's Disposition of Property
Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person's disposition of property and there is no sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions […]
§42-5-3. Joint Tenants or Tenants by the Entirety
Where there is no sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one half as 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 […]
§42-1-5. From Whom Children Born Out of Wedlock Inherit
(a) Children born out of wedlock shall be capable of inheriting and transmitting inheritance on the part of their mother and father. (b) Prior to the death of the father, paternity shall be established by: (1) Acknowledgment that he is the child's father;
§42-1-6. Legitimation by Marriage
If a man, having had a child or children by a woman, shall afterwards intermarry with her, such child or children, or their descendants, shall be deemed legitimate.
§42-1-7. Issue Legitimate Though Marriage Null
The issue of marriages deemed null in law, or dissolved by a court, shall nevertheless be legitimate.
§42-1-8. Posthumous Children to Take
Any child in the womb of its mother at, and which may be born after, the death of the intestate, shall be capable of taking by inheritance in the same manner as if such child were in being at the time of such death.