Indiana § 29-2-14-3 - Joint tenants; tenants by entirety
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 29-2-14-3 — Joint tenants; tenants by entirety, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 29-2-14-3. Joint tenants; tenants by entirety
Sec. 3. Where there is no sufficient evidence that two (2) joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one-half (1/2) as if one (1) had survived and one-half (1/2) as if the other had survived. If there are more than two (2) joint tenants and all of them have so died the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one (1) bears to the whole number of joint tenants.
Formerly: Acts 1941, c.49, s.3.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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