Joint Tenants With Survivorship Vs Tenants In Common In Palm Beach

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Co ownership of real property can be in the following forms:



" Tenancy in common, in which the interest of each owner may be transferred or inherited;


" Joint tenancy, in which the tenants each have a right of survivorship;


" Tenants by the entirety, in which a husband and wife own property and have a right of survivorship; or


" Community property, which applies in some States to property acquired during the period of a marriage.


The phrase joint tenancy refers to a method of ownership by which one person mutually holds legal title to property with other persons in such a way that when one of the joint owners dies his share automatically passes to the surviving joint owners by operation of law.


Traditionally, when two or more people own real property together, they hold it as tenants in common. Owning real property as joint tenants with full rights of survivorship has, in the past, been usually been limited to married couples or other close kinship. However, there is no reason that single unmarried people cannot own property in a joint tenancy arrangement.

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In Florida, a surviving spouse automatically inherits the deceased spouse's share of their joint property. If the deceased had separate property, the spouse typically inherits either all of it or a portion, depending on whether there are surviving children and if the deceased left a valid will.

While the right of survivorship offers a straightforward method for property transfer upon the death of a co-owner, it's not immune to challenges. Seeking legal counsel and careful documentation are crucial steps to safeguard against disputes and ensure a smooth transfer of property ing to the owners' wishes.

By jointly owning property, you may find yourself party to a lawsuit if your co-owner is sued or the asset could be lost to a creditor of your co-owner. If your co-owner becomes incapacitated, you could find yourself “owning” the property with the co-owner's guardian or the courts.

Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship Under Florida law, when you add the words “right of survivorship” to a joint tenancy, that means full title to the real estate goes to the owner that survives the death of the other(s).

The Florida Supreme Court said that real and personal property owned jointly by a married couple is presumed to be owned as tenants by entireties unless the couple has expressly disclaimed entireties ownership.

Real estate titled in the sole name of the decedent, or the decedent's name and another person as tenants in common, is a probate asset (unless it is homestead property). Real estate titled in the name of the decedent and one or more other persons as joint tenants with rights of survivorship is not a probate asset.

A joint tenancy in Florida has all the features of the tenancy in common except that all the joint tenants must have the same equal percentage of interest in the real property. The joint tenancy also does not avoid Florida probate.

Disadvantages of community property with a right of survivorship: If a spouse dies having willed a property titled as community property with a right of survivorship to someone other than their spouse, their gift may be deemed invalid.

Tenants in common gives you more protections and you can specify in a deed of trust what you would want to happen in the event of relationship breakdown (eg if one of you has first dibs to buy the other out, or a time limit on doing so etc) which is definitely better to decide now whilst you still like each other!

Joint tenancy should be used with extreme caution. It can subject a co- owner to unnecessary taxes and liabili- ty for the other co-owner's debts. It can also deprive heirs of bequeathed prop- erty and, in California, leave the joint tenant without right of survivorship.

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Joint Tenants With Survivorship Vs Tenants In Common In Palm Beach