Josh Patoka has been a personal finance writer since 2015. He uses his professional and personal experience to help families save money and pay off debt faster. In addition to Forbes, his bylines have ...

Joint tenancy is a type of shared property ownership. In a joint tenancy agreement, two or more people share an equal amount of ownership in the home. There are no limits to who can own the property ...

Sharing ownership of a property with another person (or persons) can be legally established in a number of different ways. One possible legal arrangement is through tenancy in common, which allows you ...

Q: You’ve written about married couples owning real estate as husband and wife and not as joint tenants. Isn’t that the same thing? Why is it better to own real estate as husband and wife and not ...

You have not specified whether the former matrimonial home is held in joint names or whether the property is held by you both, as joint tenants or tenants in common. Joint tenants are treated as a ...

Joint tenancy on a deed is a form of property ownership that enables two or more individuals to hold equal shares of a property, subject to specific rights and conditions. This kind of ownership is ...

In a recent decision handed down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Grant v. Grant, the court dealt with the effect of a self-conveyance of real property where a mother sought to sever a joint ...

West Virginia is one of many states that does not recognize tenancy by the entirety as a property ownership structure. Married couples in the state can hold property as joint tenants with rights of ...