• A joint tenant with inheritance rights is a legal ownership structure in which two or more parties participate in relation to an account or other asset.

  • Each tenant has equal rights to the account’s assets and is entitled to life savings in the event of the death of the other account holder(s).
  • The surviving member inherits the total value of another member’s property share upon the death of that other member.
  • JTWROS can only be created if the owners simultaneously acquire the property, have the same ownership of the asset(s), have an equal share in the property, must have the same right to own all the assets.
  • This agreement avoids a will, but does not allow the transfer of ownership to the heirs of a deceased person.