Should I be on the deed?

While as a spouse you would always have certain rights in your marital residence some steps you can take short of demanding to be on the deed include:

1) Ensure that your finace and his father will be taking the deeds as tenants in common and not as joint tenants with a right of survivorship. With tenant in common ownership each owner controls their share of the property at death by their Will whereas with joint ownership the property would pass to the survivor.

2) Ask your fiance to prepare a Will specifically leaving you his interst in the house (along with whatever else he intends to have pass to you) .

Very truly yours,

Ed Smeltzer

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