Is a joint tenant entitled to a full share of the property?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Baryla v. Baryla, 2019 BCCA 22 (CanLII):
Joint tenancy and tenancy in common constitute the main forms of co-ownership in Canadian law. A defining characteristic of joint tenancy is the right of survivorship, whereby when a joint tenant dies, his or her interest in the property is extinguished, and the surviving joint tenant obtains the full interest to the property: Zeligs v. Janes, 2016 BCCA 280 at para. 41.
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