Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Article 2. ADVANCEMENTS

53-1-13. Consideration of satisfaction or advancement when recipient predeceases transferor.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Unless the writing described in subsection (c) of Code Section 53-1-10 or the testator’s will expressly provides otherwise, a satisfaction or an advancement is considered when computing the division and distribution of the transferor’s estate even if the recipient of the satisfaction or advancement fails to survive the transferor.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 53-1-13, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘The Time Gap in Wills: Shifting Assets and Shrinking Estates — Obsolescence and Testamentary Planning in Georgia,’’ see 6 Ga. L. Rev. 649 (1972). For article discussing concept of advancements, see 10 Ga. L. Rev. 447 (1976).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V40, 2021 edition, page 228; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 062775612dfc.

Ask about this section

The answer is drawn from this section and, when they fit, the other sections of its chapter. It quotes the text and names the section for each claim. Not legal advice.