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 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 85 - Simultaneous Death
Section 8501 - No sufficient evidence of survivorship
Section 8502 - Beneficiaries of another person's disposition of property
Section 8503 - Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety
Section 8504 - Insurance policies
Section 8505 - Chapter does not apply if decedent provides otherwise