massachusetts
My mother recently remarried and has told me that she has granted rights of survivorship to her new husband on a home that she had solely owned and has willed to her two children. The home is not a primary residence. In order to receive survivorship rights on a property would joint tenancy have to be granted to a remarried spouse? And to grant joint tenancy would the new husband have to be made a Co-owner of the property by having his name added to the deed.
Can you have survivorship rights without joint tenancy? Maybe by only including the new husbands name in my mother’s will?
My concern is that if my mother passes, the new husband would have the right to transfer or sell his stake in the property to a third party. The house is also a rental property and he would then be entitled to 1/3 of the profits.
My mother recently remarried and has told me that she has granted rights of survivorship to her new husband on a home that she had solely owned and has willed to her two children. The home is not a primary residence. In order to receive survivorship rights on a property would joint tenancy have to be granted to a remarried spouse? And to grant joint tenancy would the new husband have to be made a Co-owner of the property by having his name added to the deed.
Can you have survivorship rights without joint tenancy? Maybe by only including the new husbands name in my mother’s will?
My concern is that if my mother passes, the new husband would have the right to transfer or sell his stake in the property to a third party. The house is also a rental property and he would then be entitled to 1/3 of the profits.