Home Trust Mercantile Bank v. Staggs

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• noting encumbrances are extinguished when a joint tenant’s interest is transferred through the right of survivorship
• severance of the joint tenancy results in the surviving joint tenant and the new owner of the transferred interest holding the property as tenants-in-common

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).