Co-ownership or Concurrent Ownership

Ownership by more than one person includes:

 

•Tenancy in common

•Joint tenancy

•Tenancy by the entirety

 

Partition is the dividing of cotenants interest in real property.  When two or more people own property together, its division is called a partition.  A tenancy by the entireties cannot be partitioned.

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