Gau v. Hyland

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that statutory lien may attach to one joint tenant’s undivided fractional interest, but holding that such attachment alone does not sever joint tenancy
• court followed plain meaning of old-age assistance lien statute to avoid upsetting legislature’s intent
• old-age assistance lien upon real property attaches only to the recipient’s joint tenancy interest
• \A lien is in no sense an estate or interest in the land.\
• interest of joint tenancy terminates at death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).