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title: Title 53, Chapter 2. Descent and Distribution
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date: 2025
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heading: DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION
title_heading: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
section_count: 26
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# Title 53, Chapter 2. Descent and Distribution

Title 53. Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates

26 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 53-2-1, Rules of inheritance when decedent dies without will; effect of abandonment of child, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-1.md
- 53-2-2, Construction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-2.md
- 53-2-3, Inheritance by children born out of wedlock, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-3.md
- 53-2-4, Inheritance from children born out of wedlock, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-4.md
- 53-2-5, Children conceived by method of assisted reproduction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-5.md
- 53-2-6, Individual related to decedent through two or more lines of relationship, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-6.md
- 53-2-7, Vesting of title to property; right to possession, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-7.md
- 53-2-8, Death intestate, and without ascertainable heirs, of spouse of intestate decedent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-8.md
- 53-2-9, Child born out of wedlock, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-9.md
- 53-2-20, Jurisdiction of probate or superior court, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-20.md
- 53-2-21, Filing of petition, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-21.md
- 53-2-22, Petition by person claiming to be heir or distributee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-22.md
- 53-2-23, Superior court procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-23.md
- 53-2-24, Probate court procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-24.md
- 53-2-25, Intervention by person claiming to be heir or distributee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-25.md
- 53-2-26, Effect of findings of court, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-26.md
- 53-2-27, DNA testing for kinship; procedure; costs; conduct of tests; enforcement; use of results, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-27.md
- 53-2-28, Civil matter; rules of procedure; construction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-28.md
- 53-2-30, Authority of administrator; method of distribution provided for in will, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-30.md
- 53-2-31, Petition in probate court; distribution in kind not pro rata, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-31.md
- 53-2-32, Order of probate court, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-32.md
- 53-2-40, Petition, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-40.md
- 53-2-41, Issuance of citation and order; objections, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-41.md
- 53-2-42, Right of action by creditor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-42.md
- 53-2-50, Definition, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-50.md
- 53-2-51, Procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/53-2-51.md