Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in New Jersey

Wording on deed

I bought a house 2 years ago with a man I was not married to and we own it jointly so the deceased persons share passes to his estate. Since then we have married and we both have children. Do we need to change that deed or will the deceased spouse's share automatically pass to the surviving spouse?


Asked on 12/04/07, 10:57 am

3 Answers from Attorneys

Bernard J. Berkowitz Berkowitz & Raiken

Re: Wording on deed

You need to change the Deed and also see someone about estate planning to protect your children.

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Answered on 12/05/07, 9:58 am
Jonathan Chester The Law Office of Jonathan S. Chester, Esq., LLC

Re: Wording on deed

I would need to review a copy of your deed to verify the form of ownership.

However, you need to see an estate planning attorney to make sure that not only the title to your house but also your respective wills are in proper order. Otherwise, uninteded results may occur.

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Answered on 12/04/07, 11:26 am
Mitchell Roth MW Roth, Professional Law Corporation

Re: Wording on deed

No. You will need to change the deed.

Since you are married you should get a good understanding of how to protect each other and your respective children when death or disability strike. I suggest you get and read my book "How You Can Protect Your Loved Ones in the Event of Death or Disability (Without Paying a Legal Fees}" Not only does it explain virtually everything you need to know in plain English, but it contains in the Appendix a copy of the Legacy Living Trust Package. This is a complete trust package for the Middle Class including a Living trust for single or for married people, a durable general power of attorney, an advance healthcare directive, an Abstract of Trust, all necessary transfer documents and instructions. Having taught literally hundreds of seminars to thousand of regular middle class people, I have learned how to answer the most important questions in language understandable to all. Having learned over 30 years that most people that go to an attorney to pay $1200 or more for these documents don't understand the language in the unnecessarily complicated documents, don't understand what they are doing and why, and ofen make common but avoidable mistakes, I created the Legacy Living Trust Package.

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Agian, the book is, to my knowledge, the only one written for regular people in the middle class, and it contains in an appendix the Legacy Living Trust Package, which to my knowledge is the only complete fill-in the blanks trust package written in simple English (People Ease, not Legalese) that will be valid in every State in the US.

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Answered on 12/04/07, 1:57 pm


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