633.535 - PERSON CAUSING DEATH.
633.535 PERSON CAUSING DEATH. 1. A person who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of another shall not receive any property, benefit, or other interest by reason of the death as an heir, distributee, beneficiary, appointee, or in any other capacity whether the property, benefit, or other interest passed under any form of title registration, testamentary or nontestamentary instrument, intestacy, renunciation, or any other circumstance. The property, benefit, or other interest shall pass as if the person causing death died before the decedent. 2. A joint tenant who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of another joint tenant which affects their interests so that the share of the decedent passes as the decedent's property has no rights by survivorship. This provision applies to joint tenancies and tenancies by the entireties in real and personal property, joint and multiple-party accounts in banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and other institutions, and any other form of co-ownership with survivorship rights. 3. A named beneficiary of a bond, life insurance policy, or any other contractual arrangement who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of the principal obligee or person upon whose life the policy is issued or whose death generates the benefits under any other contractual arrangement is not entitled to any benefit under the bond, policy, or other contractual arrangement, and the benefits become payable as though the person causing death had predeceased the decedent.
Section History: Early Form [C97, § 3386; S13, § 3386; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12032; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 636.47; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 633.535]
Section History: Recent Form 87 Acts, ch 9, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1134, § 111 Referred to in § 633.536, 633.537