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 West Virginia Code
Chapter 42. Descent and Distribution
Article 5. Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
§42-5-1. No Sufficient Evidence of Survivorship
§42-5-2. Beneficiaries of Another Person's Disposition of Property
§42-5-3. Joint Tenants or Tenants by the Entirety
§42-5-5. Article Not Retroactive
§42-5-6. Article Does Not Apply if Decedent Provides Otherwise
§42-5-7. Uniformity of Interpretation