Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Jersey

If the house is only in your name, he would not have a right to the house. Only those to whom you leave the house in your will, or if you have no will, your legal heirs under the intestate succession law, will inherit the house.

It would be advisable for you to have a will, to avoid any questions about who has the right to the house. If you wanted to provide for his right to live in the house if you predecease him, you may also provide for that in a will.

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