When a joint tenant dies, does the last joint tenant inherit the property?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Di Giacomo v Di Giacomo, 2021 BCSC 2313 (CanLII):
The right of survivorship (in other words, the right to “inherit” upon surviving the donor) is a necessary incident of a joint tenancy. When a joint tenant dies, his or her interest in the property is extinguished. The surviving joint tenants continue to hold the property as joint tenants. The last surviving joint tenant takes full ownership of the property: McKendry v. McKendry, 2017 BCCA 48 at para. 28.
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