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<p class="MsoNormal">Listmates. We have a client that wants to partition property. The statute ( 7.52.10) says that persons entitled to bring an action are persons in possession “… of real property as tenants in common…” Black’s dictionary defines
partition to include joint tenants. In our case the deed is to A and B as Joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common. Are we excluded from partition? Does not seem like a JT should be prevented for partitioning but it does not
match the statutory language. No case law on point that we have found. Anybody have to deal with this before?? Thanks, Craig
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