Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Pennsylvania

Re: deed to a house

Pennsylvania permits spouses to own individual property, Pa. is not a community property state.

The most basic answer to this question is: The property is owned by the sole spouse who is on the deed, which will cause that property to pass according to the owner/spouse's will or, in the absence of a will, by intestacy to the owner/spouse's heirs.

(Go to www.pawill.com and use the "Intestacy Calculator" program to see exactly how it will be divided.)

There may be other factors which could affect how much of the property is actually split this way, such as agreement between the spouses, but this is basically how it operates.