So I'm learning about concurrent ownership (when families pass on their property and one uncle twice removed has part of the land that you really want... and of course, deserve.)
In reading about joint tenancy (where if you die first, you and your family gets nothing):
"When one of two co-tenants murders the other one, the murderer forfeits the right of survivorship, but not his interest. In effect, murder turns the joint tenancy into a tenancy in common."
ok ok... so that has some legal mumbo jumbo. But in a joint tenancy, if your brother dies before you do, his kids don't get anything, it all goes to you. And now, I'm just guessing here, but to deter murder, they decided that you can't murder your brother to get the whole property. If you do that, you just get half. Boo-hoo. So don't murder! It could affect your inheritance.
Law school helps me pacify my sibling rivalry problems. (I love my brothers!)
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