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 shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Chapter 7 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.
Section 43-7-2 - No Sufficient Evidence of Survivorship; Disposition of Property of Decedents.
Section 43-7-3 - Beneficiaries of Another Person's Disposition of Property.
Section 43-7-4 - Joint Tenants or Tenants by the Entirety.
Section 43-7-5 - Insurance Policies.
Section 43-7-6 - Chapter Not Retroactive.
Section 43-7-7 - Chapter Not Applicable if Decedent Provides Otherwise.