Severance: deceased property
Severance: deceased property
- 1994
- Estates Gazette Case Summaries 1994 EGCS 8(1) 5/2/94 .
"Hunter v Babbage" ChD 21 January 1994, held that a joint tenancy on a matrimonial house had been severed by a draft property adjustment order made in December 1989, even though the husband had died before the consent order had been finalised. Therefore half the net proceeds of sale belonged to the husband`s estate.
JOINT TENANCY
MATRIMONIAL HOME
NET PROCEEDS
PROPERTY ADJUSTMENT ORDER
"Hunter v Babbage" ChD 21 January 1994, held that a joint tenancy on a matrimonial house had been severed by a draft property adjustment order made in December 1989, even though the husband had died before the consent order had been finalised. Therefore half the net proceeds of sale belonged to the husband`s estate.
JOINT TENANCY
MATRIMONIAL HOME
NET PROCEEDS
PROPERTY ADJUSTMENT ORDER