O'Malley v. O'Malley

Citations

• 78 Pa. Super. 10
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 330

Syllabus

<p>Real property — Rstate by entireties — Divorce — Accounting for rents.</p> <p>1. Tenants by the entireties are not seized o£ undivided halves of the estate. Both are seized of the whole. There can be no severance of ownership in such an estate except by death of one of the parties, or by voluntary alienation by both. A divorce does not change an estate by the entireties into a tenancy in common.</p> <p>2. A divorced wife cannot compel her former husband to account for and pay over to her one-half of the net revenues received by him from property held by them as tenants by the entireties.</p>