[WSBAPT] Help - car titles make me crazy

[Heather de Vrieze]

I have always understood car titles with multiple names on the title to work just like bank accounts with multiple names. I think they are then essentially nonprobate assets and pass to the remaining named owner. I had no idea you could list and/or, or how that might change things.

Heather S. de Vrieze
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I have had this issue come up 2 times this year but never before that.

Car titles have 2 names on it (in one case Husband and Wife (legally separated) and in the other Father and Son).  Titles either have both names with no designation (Owner:  H with W below) or Husband and/or Wife; Father and/or Son.

Wife dies - Father dies.  Both H and S claim full ownership without being part of their distributive share.  In the H W case it's not a big deal because intestacy laws say all to surviving spouse but in the second case I say S has to take the value of ½ towards his distributive share as "and/or" is not the same thing as joint with rights of survivorship.

Diane J. Kiepe

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