Ky. Rev. Stat. § 381.050

Current through Acts Received April 24, 2024
Section 381.050 - Estate created by conveyance to husband and wife - Will not to defeat right to the entirety by survivorship
(1) If real estate is conveyed or devised to husband and wife, unless a right by survivorship is expressly provided for, there shall be no mutual right to the entirety by survivorship between them, but they shall take as tenants in common, and the respective moieties shall be subject to the respective rights of the husband or wife as fixed in KRS Chapter 392, with all other incidents to such tenancy.
(2) Where a conveyance or devise expressly creates a mutual right to the entirety by survivorship in real estate between a husband and wife, no provision of the will of the husband or wife shall be construed to defeat such right to the entirety by survivorship of the surviving spouse.

KRS 381.050

Effective:7/15/1980
Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 1, effective7/15/1980. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective 10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2143.