The following excerpt is from Brown's Will, In re, 209 N.Y.S.2d 465, 26 Misc.2d 1011 (N.Y. Surr. Ct. 1961):
Property held by two persons as joint tenants with right of survivorship and property held by husband and wife as tenants by the entirety, though not exactly the same, have certain characteristics in common. In the case of Azzara v. Azzara, 1 A.D.2d 1012, 151 N.Y.S.2d 458, 450, the court said 'while neither a husband nor a wife can dispose of property owned by them as tenants by the entirety so as to affect the right of survivorship, they may do so by acting in concert, or by joint will, or by a contract.' In this case, the makers of the joint Will could, by the terms of such instrument, affect the right of survivorship as to the jointly owned property by using such language whereby an intent could be spelled out that they intended their jointly owned property to be subject to the final debts, funeral and administration expenses of the first joint tenant to die.
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