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Joint Tenancy

January 15, 2017 by: Content Team

Joint tenancy is a situation wherein two people hold equal ownership in a single piece of real property. Both names are on the deed, and each person has a 50 percent ownership stake in that particular piece of property. If one of the two people dies, then the other person automatically takes complete ownership of the property. To explore this […]

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