Your Guide to Inheriting a Home

How does it work? Benjamin Franklin once coined the phrase “the only things certain in life are death and taxes”, and that’s the truth of in both ways of inheritance. When a relative or someone you are close to passes away, they may leave you to inherit their property and their estate. There are a number of ways this can happen: If the property was under a ‘joint tenancy’ agreement, then the property automatically passes onto the remaining other half and is not subject to a will or law of intestacy. If the property was owned outright by those of […]