Bonczkowski v. Kucharski

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• following the surviving spouse’s death four months after her husband, the supreme court invalidated the parties’ joint will but concluded that a contract existed between them that prevented the testamentary transfer of real estate to the surviving spouse’s daughter
• following the surviving spouse's death four months after her husband, the supreme court invalidated the parties' joint will but concluded that a contract existed between them that prevented the testamentary transfer of real estate to the surviving spouse's daughter
• “An essential feature of the estate of joint tenancy is the right of survivorship, that is, the right of the last survivor to take the whole of the estate” immediately upon the death of the other joint tenant by operation of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).