(a) An instrument is effective to revoke a recorded transfer on death instrument, or any part of it, only if:
(1) it is:
- (A) another transfer on death instrument that revokes the instrument or part of the instrument expressly or by inconsistency; or
- (B) an instrument of revocation that expressly revokes the instrument or part of the instrument; and
(2) it is:
- (A) executed, witnessed, and acknowledged in the same manner as is required by Section 45 on a date that is after the date of the acknowledgment of the instrument being revoked; and
- (B) recorded before the owner's death in the public records in the office of the recorder of the county or counties where the prior transfer on death instrument is recorded.
- (b) A transfer on death instrument executed and recorded in accordance with this Act may not be revoked by a revocatory act on the instrument, by an unrecorded instrument, or by a provision in a will.
(Source: P.A. 97-555, eff. 1-1-12; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)