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                                  ARTICLE 2
 
              RULES GOVERNING DISPOSITIONS SUBJECT TO THIS LAW
 
              PART 1. SUBSTANTIVE RULES GOVERNING DISPOSITIONS
 
  Section 2-1.1  Heirs at law and next of kin defined.
          2-1.2  Issue   to   take   per   capita,   per   stirpes  or  by
                   representation.
          2-1.3  Adopted children and posthumous children as members of  a
                   class.
          2-1.4  Words of inheritance unnecessary.
          2-1.5  Advancements and their adjustment.
          2-1.6  Disposition  of  property  where  there  is no sufficient
                   evidence  that  persons  have   died   otherwise   than
                   simultaneously.
          2-1.7  Presumption  of death from absence; effect of exposure to
                   specific peril.
          2-1.8  Apportionment of federal and state estate or other  death
                   taxes;  fiduciary  to collect taxes from property taxed
                   and transferees thereof.
          2-1.9  Distributions in kind by executors and trustees.
          2-1.10 Provisions relating to infants and minors.
          2-1.11 Renunciation of property interests.
          2-1.12 Credit shelter formula bequests
          2-1.13 Right to  recover  state  estate  and  gift  taxes  where
                   decedent retained interest
          2-1.14 Consequences  of partly ineffective dispositions of trust
                   principal to two or more beneficiaries