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Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

• Overview

  You must decide which type of joint ownership you want if you buy, inherit…

• Check your ownership details

  You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…

• Change from joint tenants to tenants in common

  This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…

• Change from tenants in common to joint tenants

  You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…

• Selling when an owner has lost mental capacity

  You must apply to the Court of Protection if all of the following apply:…

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