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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 190A. EFFECT OF APPARENTLY SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS UPON DEVOLUTION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY, INCLUDING PROCEEDS OF INSURANCE

Chapter 190A: Section 5. Application of chapter

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 8. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

  Section 5. This chapter shall not apply to a will, living trust or deed wherein provision has been made for distribution different from the distribution under this chapter, or to a policy or contract of insurance wherein provision has been made for payment of its proceeds different from such payment under this chapter, or to any other situation where provision is made for distribution of property or for payment different from the provisions of this chapter, or where provision is made for a presumption as to survivorship which results in a distribution of property or in a payment different from that here provided.