75-2-711 - Interests in "heirs" and like.
75-2-711. Interests in "heirs" and like.
If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for a present or future distributionto or creates a present or future interest in a designated individual's "heirs," "heirs-at-law,""next-of-kin," "relatives," or "family," or language of similar import, the property passes to thosepersons, including the state, and in such shares as would succeed to the designated individual'sintestate estate under the intestate succession law of the designated individual's domicile if thedesignated individual died when the disposition is to take effect in possession or enjoyment. Ifthe designated individual's surviving spouse is living but is remarried at the time the disposition isto take effect in possession or enjoyment, the surviving spouse is not an heir of the designatedindividual.
Enacted by Chapter 39, 1998 General Session