Get it in writing: Documenting a gifted right of survivorship

By Suzana Popovic-Montag ( February 24, 2025, 1:36 PM EST) -- With the Supreme Court’s decision in Pecore v. Pecore, 2007 SCC 17 (Pecore), it became clear that joint tenants can have different types of beneficial interests in property. Not only is it possible to hold a full beneficial interest in the property, but a joint tenant may also hold only a right of survivorship, in which case all beneficial interest in the property is held in trust for the other joint tenant until that other tenant passes away....