2101 - Intestate estate.

                                CHAPTER 21                           INTESTATE SUCCESSION     Sec.     2101.  Intestate estate.     2102.  Share of surviving spouse.     2103.  Shares of others than surviving spouse.     2104.  Rules of succession.     2105.  Spouse's rights.     2106.  Forfeiture.     2107.  Persons born out of wedlock.     2108.  Adopted person.     2109.  Advancements (Repealed).     2109.1. Advancements.     2110.  Spouse's allowance; procedure.     2111.  Procedure to establish title to real property when            spouse claims entire estate (Repealed).     2112.  Property distributable to the Commonwealth (Repealed).     2113.  Limitations of claims (Repealed).     2114.  Personal estate of nonresident (Repealed).        Enactment.  Chapter 21 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508,     No.164, effective July 1, 1972.        Cross References.  Chapter 21 is referred to in sections 305,     6306 of this title; section 6115 of Title 18 (Crimes and     Offenses).     § 2101.  Intestate estate.        (a)  General rule.--All or any part of the estate of a     decedent not effectively disposed of by will or otherwise passes     to his heirs as prescribed in this chapter, except as modified     by the decedent's will.        (b)  Modification by decedent's will.--A decedent by will may     expressly exclude or limit the right of an individual or class     to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate     succession. If that individual or a member of that class     survives the decedent, the share of the decedent's intestate     estate to which the individual or class would have succeeded     passes as if that individual or each member of that class had     disclaimed his intestate share.     (Apr. 18, 1978, P.L.42, No.23, eff. 60 days; Dec. 1, 1994,     P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days)        1994 Amendment.  Section 10 of Act 102 provided that the     amendment of section 2101 shall apply to the estates of     decedents dying on or after the effective date of Act 102.        1978 Amendment.  Section 9 of Act 23 provided that Act 23     shall apply only to decedents dying after the effective date of     Act 23.