Section 3-311. Marriage relationship not to affect construction of instruments and transactions involving personal property  


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  • 1. Where  an  instrument  or  transaction  creating  or  transferring  an  interest in
      personal property would create a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common in
      persons not husband and wife, it shall  create  a  joint  tenancy  or  a
      tenancy  in  common,  as the case may be, in persons who are husband and
      wife.
        2. An instrument or transaction which  does  not  create  a  right  of
      survivorship  in  personal  property between persons who are not husband
      and wife shall not create a right of survivorship in  personal  property
      between persons who are husband and wife.
        3.  This  section applies without regard to the identity of the person
      who makes the transfer or at whose instance it is had, or from whom  the
      consideration for the instrument or transaction proceeds.