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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="14-1009" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Rules" subtitle_number="10">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in the transfer–on–death deed or in this section, this section applies on the death of a transferor to property that is the subject of a transfer–on–death deed owned by the transferor at death, subject to the limitations under:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Title 3, Subtitle 3 of the Estates and Trusts Article (Statutory Share of Pretermitted Child and Issue);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Title 3, Subtitle 4 of the Estates and Trusts Article (Elective Share of Surviving Spouse);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Section 4–105(b)(3) and (4) of the Estates and Trusts Article (revocation by subsequent marriage followed by a child or by divorce);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Section 4–403 of the Estates and Trusts Article (Lapse);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Section 11–112 of the Estates and Trusts Article (disqualification from inheriting property or an interest in property for feloniously and intentionally killing, conspiring to kill, or procuring the killing of a decedent); and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Title 10, Subtitle 8 of the Courts Article (Simultaneous Death).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The interest in the property is transferred to a designated beneficiary in accordance with the transfer–on–death deed on the death of the transferor if the beneficiary survives the transferor.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the designated beneficiary does not survive the transferor and the transferor has provided for an alternate designated beneficiary in the transfer–on–death deed, the interest in the property is transferred to a surviving alternate designated beneficiary in accordance with the transfer–on–death deed on the death of the transferor.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The interest of any designated beneficiary who fails to survive the transferor lapses.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A transfer–on–death deed may provide for successive alternate designated beneficiaries.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to Title 3, Subtitle 2 of this article, a beneficiary takes the property transferred by the transfer–on–death deed subject to all conveyances, encumbrances, assignments, contracts, mortgages, liens, and any other security agreements, as defined in § 9–102 of the Commercial Law Article, that the property is subject to at the transferor’s death.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For purposes of this subsection, the delivery of the transfer–on–death deed is deemed to have occurred at the transferor’s death.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A transfer–on–death deed transfers property without covenant or warranty of title even if the transfer–on–death deed contains a contrary provision.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a transferor is a joint owner and is survived by one or more joint owners, the property that is the subject of the transfer–on–death deed belongs to the surviving joint owner or owners with right of survivorship.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a transferor is a joint owner and is the last surviving joint owner, the transfer–on–death deed is effective on the death of the last surviving joint owner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
