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... How Joint Tenancy Avoids Probate
When one joint owner (called a joint tenant, though it has nothing to ... do with renting) dies, the surviving owners automatically get the deceased owner's share of the joint ... The exact steps depend on the type of property, but generally all the new owner has to do is fill out ... a straightforward form and present it, with a death certificate, to the keeper of ownership records: ... If you do, the new owners won't be joint tenants; instead they will be “tenants in common. ...