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The ownership of a life estate is of limited duration because it ends at the death of a person. Its owner is the life tenant (typically also the 'measuring life') and it carries with it right to enjoy certain benefits of ownership of the property, chiefly income derived from rent or other uses of the property and the right of occupation, during his or her possession.
A person, A, conveys (gives) a piece of real property called "Blackacre" "to B for life, and then to C and her heirs". B receives a life estate in Blackacre. C holds a remainder, which can become possessory when the prior estate naturally terminates (B 's death). However, C cannot claim the property during B 's lifetime.
A remainderman is a person who inherits or is entitled to inherit property upon the termination of the estate of the former owner. [1] Usually, this occurs due to the death or termination of the former owner's life estate , but this can also occur due to a specific notation in a trust passing ownership from one person to another.
Lord Eldon LC. Where there is a duty to convert under the rule in Howe v Earl of Dartmouth, there is, in the absence of an intention that the life tenant shall enjoy the income until sale, the second limb of the rule is that the trustee is under a duty also to apportion the property fairly between the life tenant and the remainderman until conversion.
What happens if the owner of a life insurance policy dies before the insured? When the owner of a life insurance policy passes away before the insured, things can get a bit tricky. If the owner ...
A life interest [1] (or life rent in Scotland) is a form of right, usually under a trust, that lasts only for the lifetime of the person benefiting from that right. A person with a life interest is known as a life tenant. A life interest ends when the life tenant dies. An interest in possession trust is the most common example of a life ...
Sharing ownership of a property with another person (or persons) can be legally established in a number of different ways. One possible legal arrangement is through tenancy in common, which allows ...
[37] [38] If, for example, a grantor's will devised land "to my son, for life; then to his wife [or widow], for life; then to his children living at the time of her death", the children's contingent remainder (contingent on their status as "living" at the time of the widow's death) would be invalid, even if the grantor's son was an elderly and ...