Delaware Code
Chapter 5. INTESTATE SUCCESSION
§ 510. Debts owed to decedent.

A debt owed to the decedent is charged against the intestate share of the debtor. If the debtor fails to survive the decedent, the debt is not taken into account in computing the intestate share of the debtor's issue.

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Delaware Code

Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations

Chapter 5. INTESTATE SUCCESSION

§ 501. Intestate estate.

§ 502. Share of spouse.

§ 503. Share of heirs other than surviving spouse.

§ 504. Requirement that heir survive decedent for 120 hours.

§ 505. Posthumous children.

§ 506. Kindred of half blood.

§ 507. Alienage.

§ 508. Meaning of “child” and related terms [For application of this section, see 79 Del. Laws, c. 172, § 6].

§ 509. Advancements.

§ 510. Debts owed to decedent.

§ 511. Dower and curtesy abolished.