Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver’s dire finances are going to get a whole lot worse.

McIver’s murder conviction Monday for the 2016 death of his wife, Diane, triggered a Georgia law known as the “slayer statute.” If a husband slays his wife, the statute mandates that the assets of the victim’s estate be administered as if the culprit died first.

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