NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 572

HOUSE BILL 965

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 31A-5 TO TREAT SLAYING SPOUSES EQUALLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 31A-5 as it appears in 1976 Replacement Volume 2A is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 31A-5.  Entirety property. — Where the slayer and decedent hold property as tenants by the entirety, one half of the property shall pass upon the death of the decedent to the decedent's estate, and the other one half shall be held by the slayer during his or her life, subject to pass upon the slayer's death to the slain decedent's heirs or devisees as defined in G.S. 28A-1-1."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1979.