Joint tenant


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(Law) one who holds an estate by joint tenancy. Contrassted with tenant in common.
- Blackstone.

See also: Joint

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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A person named as a joint tenant becomes a co-owner, and the act of naming that person is normally a gift, unless the tenancy is revocable, such as normally exists with joint tenancy bank, savings and loan, and credit union accounts.
Avoiding probate
The Court in McDonald, as in Kennedy, reasoned that since each joint tenant possessed a right of partition, which would destroy the survivorship interest (i.e., change the joint tenancy to a tenancy in common), each joint tenant could, by partitioning the property, dispose of his or her interest in the property by will or otherwise.
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Having placed the property in joint ownership with your new wife it is imperative you ensure that you own the property as tenants in common and not joint tenants.
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Significant recent developments in estate planning
The advantages of joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety are that it is simple to arrange, and that, at the death of all joint tenants except the last one, title to the jointly-held property passes to the surviving joint tenant without the delay, expense, or legal entanglements and confusion of probate.
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The killer, who had previously tried to run down an ex-partner with his van and doused another with boiling water, was also allowed to become a joint tenant at their home in Granville Road, Old Hill, despite warnings about his behaviour.
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