{"id":115,"date":"2022-11-17T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:32:43","slug":"restraint-on-partition-or-conversion-of-joint-tenancy-interest-to-tenancy-in-common-is-an-invalid-restraint-on-alienation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2022\/11\/17\/restraint-on-partition-or-conversion-of-joint-tenancy-interest-to-tenancy-in-common-is-an-invalid-restraint-on-alienation\/","title":{"rendered":"Restraint on partition or conversion of joint tenancy interest to tenancy in common is an invalid restraint on alienation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A deed prohibiting joint tenants from suing for partition or converting their joint tenancy interest into a tenancy in common without the consent of the other owners was an invalid restraint on alienation and unenforceable.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ca10.washburnlaw.edu\/cases\/2022\/05\/20-1236.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Mindock v DuMars<\/a>, 2022 WL 1410017, 2022 US App LEXIS 12044 (10th Cir 2022). The court did not accept the argument that the restraint was reasonable as a means to keep ownership of the home in the family when the joint tenants were all the grandchildren of the grantor.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/concurrent-or-common-ownership\/\" rel=\"tag\">Concurrent or Common Ownership<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deed prohibiting joint tenants from suing for partition or converting their joint tenancy interest into a tenancy in common without the consent of the other owners was an invalid restraint on alienation and unenforceable.&nbsp;Mindock v DuMars, 2022 WL 1410017, 2022 US App LEXIS 12044 (10th Cir 2022). The court did not accept the argument that the restraint was reasonable as a means to keep ownership of the home in the family when the joint tenants were all the grandchildren of the grantor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concurrent-or-common-ownership"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}