Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Alabama

The language of the deed is important here. If you and this person hold the property as tenants in commin you can simply sell your interest in the property to anyone you want. If you and this person hold the property as joint tenants with the right of suvivorship, you can terminate that joint tenancy by simply attempting to sell the property. The thing you must be careful of is a deed which contains what are called cross contingent remainders. If so, your ownership of the property is depends on the suvivorship itself. This can get a little complicated. You need to ask an attorney to review the deed for you and see what style of ownership you actually have.