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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.
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(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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