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How To Hold Title
There are several different ways that you can hold title to your property, and they all depend on your situation. Here are the different ways that a homeowner can hold title to their property:
1. Separate and Sole property – This is generally used by someone who is either single, or is a married person who has a property that is all their own.
When this is used, there is a proceeding that is both lengthy and expensive upon the owner’s death if they want to pass it on to their heirs.
2. Community Property – This is something that married couples use, and it means that both people have an equal palm beachinterest in the property that is undivided. When one of the spouses dies, there may be probate proceedings, and there is a step up in basis that is for the property’s entire value to the property’s fair market value when the first spouse dies. If both spouses die, there will probate hearings that will need to be done before there can be a transfer to heirs.
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4. Joint Tenancy – This is used when there are two or more people who own the house and they each have an equal interest in the house that is undivided. It has the right of survivorship and that allows the transfer of the title that is held by the deceased joint tenant to the tenant or tenants that are still surviving.
5. Tenancy in common – This is used when there are two or more property owners who may have ownership interests in the property that are different. A death of one of them will end in a probate.
6. Title holding trust – This is used by people who are single or married, and they create a living trust. They hold the title to the property in their names and they are trustee or trustees of the trust. This is something that is the best choice for many reasons.
a. The trustee chooses who gets the property when they die.
b. There are no probate hearings to deal with as with other ways of holding a title.
c. No pitfalls or expensive probate hearings.
d. If one of the trustees is incapacitated, the other trustee takes over.
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