<div dir="ltr">Why does it matter? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Lisa Schuchman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisa@lisaschuchman.com" target="_blank">lisa@lisaschuchman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">My clients, a married couple, took title to property with their daughter and her husband. Here is how the deed describes the grantees:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">“Jane Doe and John Doe, wife and husband, and Alice Smith and Bob Smith, wife and husband, as joint tenants with right of survivorship.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Do we think this is two joint tenants (two couples) or four (four individuals)? If four, how can we describe it so it is two?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Thanks.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Lisa E. Schuchman<br>
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