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· 2/23/1998

Grahl v. Davis

Citations

  • 971 S.W.2d 373
  • 1998 Tenn. LEXIS 86
  • 1998 WL 103319

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that upon death of one spouse, ownership of tenancy by the entirety property immediately vests in surviving spouse
  • ―Upon the death of one spouse, ownership of tenancy by the entirety property immediately vests in the survivor, and the laws of descent and distribution do not apply.‖
  • “[T]he conservator must petition the court, and the court, on behalf of the conservatee, can exercise such an election if it is clearly proven to be in the best interests of the conservatee.” (citations omitted)
  • ―The essential characteristic of a tenancy by the entirety is that ‗each spouse is seized of the whole or the entirety and not of a share, 21 moiety, or divisible part.‘‖

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Judges: Anderson, Birch, Drowota, Holder, Reid

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