Volume 85
Public Law 92–85
To amend chapter 19 of title 20 of the District of Columbia Code to provide for distribution of a minor’s share in a decedent’s personal estate where the share does not exceed the value of $1,000.
Approved August 11, 1971
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend chapter 19 of title 20 of the District of Columbia Code to provide for distribution of a minor’s share in a decedent’s personal estate where the share does not exceed the value of $1,000.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
chapter
D.C. estates.
Minor’s share, distribution.
D.C. Code 20–1901.
19 of title 20, District of Columbia Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“§ 20–1908. Distribution of minor’s share
“If (1) any person entitled to a distributive share of a decedent’s estate is under twenty-one years of age and is not otherwise under a legal disability, (2) such distributive share consists of personal property or money of the value of not more than $1,000, and (3) there is no duly appointed and qualified guardian for such person—
“(A) if such person is eighteen years of age or over, the executor or administrator may deliver such share to such person and his receipt shall be sufficient voucher therefor;
“(B) if such person is under eighteen years of age, the executor or administrator may deliver such share to the custodian of such person and the receipt of such custodian shall be sufficient voucher therefor.”
The table of sections for such chapter is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item:
Approved August 11, 1971.