District of Columbia Code
Title 19 - Descent, Distribution, and Trusts. [Enacted title]
Chapter 3 - Intestates’ Estates

§ 19–301. Course of descents generally - The real estate in the District of Columbia, of a...

§ 19–302. Share of spouse or domestic partner - The intestate share of a decedent’s surviving spouse or surviving...

§ 19–303. When surviving spouse entitled to one-third. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 698, Pub. L. 89-183,...

§ 19–304. When surviving spouse entitled to one-half. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 698, Pub. L. 89-183,...

§ 19–305. Distribution of surplus after payment to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner - The surplus, above the share of the surviving spouse or...

§ 19–306. Children to share equally - When the intestate leaves children and no other descendants, the...

§ 19–307. Grandchildren’s share - (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, and to...

§ 19–308. Share of father and mother - When the intestate leaves no child, or descendant, the whole...

§ 19–309. Share of brother or sister or their descendants - When the intestate leaves a brother or sister, or child...

§ 19–310. Brothers and sisters to share equally - Each brother and sister of the intestate is entitled to...

§ 19–311. Share of collateral relations - After children, descendants, parents, brothers, and sisters of the deceased...

§ 19–312. Share of grandfather and grandmother - The grandparents, or such of them as survive, share alike...

§ 19–313. Death of distributee before distribution - When a person entitled to distribution dies before the distribution...

§ 19–314. Share of posthumous children - A right in the inheritance to real or personal property...

§ 19–315. No distinction between whole- and half-blood - There is no distinction between the kindred of the whole-...

§ 19–316. Share of children born out of wedlock; their heirs; mother; father - Children born out of wedlock and the heirs of children...

§ 19–317. Trust estates - When a trustee is seized of the naked legal estate...

§ 19–318. Antenuptial children - When a man has a child by a woman whom...

§ 19–319. Advancements - (a) If a child or descendant has been advanced by...

§ 19–320. Felonious homicide as barring inheritance; insurance policies; bona fide purchasers - (a) A person convicted of felonious homicide of another person,...

§ 19–321. Descent through alien ancestor no bar - In making title by descent it is no bar to...

§ 19–322. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term “domestic partner”...