Waters v. Roberts

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

Code § 113-903 purports to provide a comprehensive plan for determining the heirs at law of a deceased person. After providing for the surviving wife or husband, and the children and their descendants (Subsections 1-4) and placing brothers and sisters and certain of their descendants in the second degree, as well as parents (Subsections 5 and 6), the section provides that in degrees more remote than the foregoing the paternal and maternal next of kin shall stand on an equal footing (Subsection 7), that first cousins, uncles, and aunts are in the next degree and inherit…