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In Texas, two forms of joint ownership have the right of survivorship: Joint tenancy. Property owned in joint tenancy automatically passes to the surviving owners when one owner dies. (The survivor must, however, live at least 120 hours longer than the deceased co-owner.

After death of any person(s) named in this agreement, the survivor(s) may obtain a new title by submitting a new Application for Texas Title and/or Registration (Form 130-U) in the name of the survivor(s), this completed form, and a copy of the death certificate.

Utilizing a revocable trust is the best way for a married couple to take title. Titling property in your trust avoids probate upon the death of both the initial and surviving spouses and preserves the capital gains step up for the entire property on the first death.

On death the death of one spouse, a couple's community property is divided equally. The surviving spouse gets to keep his or her half. The deceased spouse's half is transferred through his or her will or, if there is no will, as provided in the Texas intestacy statutes.

Since they own the property equally, under a joint tenancy the split is always 50:50. The right of survivorship occurs on death of one of the owners, and their interest in the property automatically gets transferred to the remaining surviving owners.

Even if you have a Will, once you sign the Survivorship Agreement, the property will pass to you co-owner and not to any devisee you have named in your Will. Good to know: Generally, when a property owner dies without a Last Will and Testament, the interest owned by the deceased owner passes to his or her heirs-at-law.

Generally speaking, each spouse has a right to half of the community property and so, this is automatically distributed to a widow after their spouse's death. Therefore, the deceased individual only has the right to control their half of the community property estate.

After death of any person(s) named in this agreement, the survivor(s) may obtain a new title by submitting a new Application for Texas Title and/or Registration (Form 130-U) in the name of the survivor(s), this completed form, and a copy of the death certificate.

After the owners sign the Survivorship Agreement, they will legally be Joint Tenants with Right of Survivorship. The co-owners can sell the property at any time. A Survivorship Agreement does not prevent the owners from selling.

By default, the married couple will own the property as community property without rights of survivorship. If the couple wants to hold title as community property with right of survivorship, the couple must sign—in addition to the deed—a Community Property Survivorship Agreement.