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What is joint tenants with right of survivorship?

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So, what is joint tenants with right of survivorship. You may have come across the acronym JTWROS also known as joint tenants with right of survivorship. The term joint tenants in common with the right of survivorship mean having a legal ownership structure involving two or more parties of any type of financial account or asset. If a co-owner dies in a joint tenancy right of survivorship, the other co-owner who is surviving automatically becomes the owner of the asset.

 

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Therefore, you can say that the survivor member in a JTWROS inherits the total value of the other member’s share of property upon the death of a member in JTWROS. This is what is right of survivorship means.

 

This term is generally used for married couples, between a parent and a child. This type of agreement can also be established between parties who are not related, This term is used for domains such as :

 
  • Real estate

  • Checking, savings accounts

  • Mutual funds

  • brokerage fund accounts

 

The relationship in the agreement can be broken if one or more parties sell their own share in the property or asset. Therefore, it becomes a tenancy in common (TIC), that is a less restrictive form of ownership. 

 

This is what is known as joint tenants with right of survivorship in a gist. I hope you find this informative.

 

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