Sentence examples for joint tenants from inspiring English sources

You can own the property as joint tenants or as tenants-in-common.

There is only a true sharing of the driveway when there is a separately deeded right for the ownership of the driveway, in addition to both neighbors' ownership of their individual properties, and as such, the driveway is titled in the neighbors as tenants-in-common or joint tenants.

Jones's problems have arisen because she bought as "joint tenants".

Scotland noticeably lacks those old villages that evolved in England from medieval hamlets of joint tenants.

The other way unmarried individuals can own property is as joint tenants with right of survivorship.

Joint tenants are entitled to half the proceeds following a sale.

Both owners have access to the assets during life, and when one joint tenant dies, everything goes to the survivor.

Chuck owned a lovely home in Sausalito, and to my total astonishment, he made me joint tenant with him.

He designated his middle daughter, Amy Osborne, 45, as a joint tenant on his financial accounts with the sole right of survivorship.

With such a form of ownership, he said, title passes to the surviving joint tenant on the death of the other, achieving the same result that a married couple would get with a tenancy by the entirety.

"All one joint tenant needs to do in order to unilaterally destroy the survivorship interest and convert the joint tenancy to a tenancy in common is to convey away his interest or to execute and record a new deed to himself," Ms. Bluth said.