Ownership and estates
Joint tenancy
Co-ownership with right of survivorship
Requires the four unities — time, title, interest and possession — and carries survivorship: when one joint tenant dies, their interest is extinguished and the survivors hold the whole. Conveying an interest breaks the unities and turns that share into a tenancy in common.
How the exam asks about it
Survivorship beats a will. A joint tenant’s share never enters their estate, so it does not pass by will and does not go through probate.
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