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Joint Tenancies: Cutting ties
Luke Barnes cautions against overlooking the significance of joint tenancies and severance ‘A failure to sever a joint tenancy during ancillary relief proceedings can have dramatic and unexpected consequences.’ It is a fair bet that most family and private client practitioners will have advised a client to consider severing the beneficial joint tenancy of co-owned …
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- Burgess v Rawnsley [1975] 1 Ch 429 (CA)
- Edwards v Hastings [1996] NPC 87
- Goodman v Gallant [1985] EWCA Civ 15
- Gore and Snell v Carpenter (1990) 60 P&CR 456 (Ch D)
- Harris v Goddard [1983] 3 All ER 242
- Hunter v Babbage [1995] 1 FCR 569
- In re Draper's Conveyance [1969] 1 Ch 486
- McDowell v Hirschfield Lipson & Rumney and Smith [1992] 2 FLR 126
- Wallbank & anor v Price [2007] EWHC 3001 (Ch)