52-4-101. Rule of descent; generally; dower and
curtesy abolished.
(a) Whenever any person having title to any real or personal property having the
nature or legal character of real estate or personal estate undisposed of, and
not otherwise limited by marriage settlement, dies intestate, the estate shall
descend and be distributed in parcenary to his kindred, male and female, subject
to the payment of his debts, in the following course and manner:
(i) If the intestate leaves husband or wife and children, or the descendents of
any children surviving, one-half (1/2) of the estate shall descend to the
surviving husband or wife, and the residue thereof to the surviving children and
descendents of children, as hereinafter limited;
(ii) If the intestate leaves husband or wife and no child nor descendents of any
child, then the real and personal estate of the intestate shall descend and vest
in the surviving husband or wife.

(b) Dower and the tenancy by the curtesy are abolished and neither husband nor
wife shall have any share in the estate of the other dying intestate, save as
herein provided.
(c) Except in cases above enumerated, the estate of any intestate shall descend
and be distributed as follows:
(i) To his children surviving, and the descendents of his children who are dead,
the descendents collectively taking the share which their parents would have
taken if living;
(ii) If there are no children, nor their descendents, then to his father,
mother, brothers and sisters, and to the descendents of brothers and sisters who
are dead, the descendents collectively taking the share which their parents
would have taken if living, in equal parts;
(iii) If there are no children nor their descendents, nor father, mother,
brothers, sisters, nor descendents of deceased brothers and sisters, nor husband
nor wife, living, then to the grandfather, grandmother, uncles, aunts and their
descendents, the descendents taking collectively, the share of their immediate
ancestors, in equal parts.
2-4-104. Kindred of half blood; stepchildren; foster children.
Persons of the half-blood inherit the same share they would inherit if they were
of the whole blood, but stepchildren and foster children and their descendents
do not inherit.
2-4-105. When property to escheat to state.
(b) If a decedent leaves no heirs, devisees or legatees entitled to take real
property under the terms of this act, the decedent's property shall escheat to
the state of Wyoming as now provided by law for escheat property.
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