Marna S. Tucker quoted in Washington Post article: Who Gets the Mortgage?

Start by asking yourself: How are we going to own the property?

There's more than one way to do it, Tucker said. For instance, joint tenancy with right of survivorship is a form of co-ownership that allows both borrowers to jointly own the home. If one dies, the other becomes the sole owner. By contrast, tenants in common each own a certain percentage of the home; when one dies, his share may go to other beneficiaries.

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