Joint tenants may be compelled to make partition, and when a joint tenant dies, the joint tenant’s part of the joint estate, real or personal, shall descend to the joint tenant’s heirs, or pass by devise, or go to the joint tenant’s personal representative, subject to debts, curtesy, dower, or distribution.
Effective: July 15, 1998

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 381.120

  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dower: A widow

History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 267, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. — Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2348.