1. (a) After all right to appeal has been exhausted, a judgment of conviction establishing criminal accountability for the felonious and intentional killing of a decedent:

   1. (1) Is admissible in a civil proceeding in which the common law Slayer's Rule is raised as an issue; and
   2. (2) Conclusively establishes that the convicted individual feloniously and intentionally killed the decedent.
2. (b) This section may not be construed to prohibit a trier of fact, in the absence of a criminal conviction, from determining by a preponderance of the evidence in a civil proceeding that a killing was felonious and intentional.

Added by Acts 1998, c. 335, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1998; Acts 1998, c. 336, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1998. Amended by Acts 2013, c. 43, § 5; Acts 2013, c. 485, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2013; Acts 2013, c. 486, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2013.