Does a joint tenant of a jointly-tenanted property inherit from a deceased joint tenant?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Simpson v. Stevens, B220843, No. LP013505 (Cal. App. 2011):
6. "Nothing 'passes' from the deceased joint tenant to the survivor; rather, the survivor takes from the instrument by which the joint tenancy was created." (Grothe v. Cortlandt Corp. (1992) 11 Cal.App.4th 1313, 1317.)
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