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Joint Tenancy Has Some Disadvantages They include: Control Issues. Since every owner has a co-equal share of the asset, any decision must be mutual. You might not be able to sell or mortgage a home if your co-owner does not agree.
For spouses: Assets in JTWROS accounts may get a step-up on cost basis when either spouse passes away. This can help reduce capital gains taxes when selling a property, but you can only step-up half of the full value of the asset. This 50% step-up represents the portion owned by the joint owner who died.
Civil Code Section 683.2(a)(2), a joint tenant may sever a joint tenancy in real property as to the joint tenant's interest by execution of a written instrument that evidences the intent to sever the joint tenancy, including a deed that names the joint tenant as transferee.
They are: (1) recording a written declaration, (2) an express or implied agreement of the joint tenants to terminate the joint tenancy, (3) a partition judgment, (4) another form of judgment such as a divorce or probate action, or (5) an execution sale. (Miller & Starr 3 Cal. Real Estate § .)
With joint tenancy? the right of survivorship is implied, so if one joint tenant dies, the other joint tenant or tenants automatically become the owners of the deceased tenant's interest in the property without the property having to pass through probate.