Home ownership titling? (estate, rent, income)

[mmthomas]

If purchasing a home with separate funds, but married, does Kansas allow titling the property as owned by one married partner and transfer on death to the other married partner?

[ascott]

Depends on how you take title and if the state law alows for dower rights for a woman.



1. Community Property:
A form of vesting title to property owned by husband and wife during their marriage which they intend to own together. Community property is distinguished from separate property, which is property acquired before marriage, by separate gift or bequest, after legal separation, or which is agreed in writing to be owned by one spouse.
In California, real property conveyed to a married man or woman is presumed to be community property, unless otherwise stated. Since all such property is owned equally, husband and wife must sign all agreements and documents transferring the property or using it as security for a loan. Under community property, each spouse has the right to dispose of one half of the community property, by will. For example: Bruce Buyer and Barbara Buyer, husband and wife as community property.
2. Community Property with Right of Survivorship:
A form of vesting title to real property owned by husband and wife during their marriage which they intend to own together. This form of holding title shares many of the characteristics of Community Property but adds the benefit of the right of survivorship similar to title held in joint tenancy. There may be tax benefits for holding title in this manner. Interest must be created on or after July 1, 2001. On the death of a spouse, the decedent’s interest ends and the surviving spouse owns the property by survivorship and owns the property in severalty. For example: Bruce Buyer and Barbara Buyer, husband and wife as community property with right of survivorship.
3. Joint Tenancy:
A form of vesting title to property owned by two or more persons, who may or may not be married, in equal interest, subject to the right of survivorship in the surviving joint tenant(s). Title must have been acquired at the same time, by the same conveyance, and the document must expressly declare the intention to create a joint tenancy estate. When a joint tenant dies, title to the property is automatically conveyed by operation of law to the surviving joint tenant(s). Therefore, joint tenancy property is not subject to disposition by will. For example: Bruce Buyer and Barbara Buyer, husband and wife as joint tenants.
4. Tenancy in Common:

A form of vesting title to property owned by any two or more individuals in undivided fractional interests. These fractional interests may be unequal in quantity or duration and may arise at different times. Each tenant in common owns a share of the property, is entitled to a comparable portion of the income from the property and must bear an equivalent share of expenses. Each co-tenant may sell, lease or will to his/her heir that share of the property belonging to him/her. For example: Bruce Buyer, a single man, as to an undivided 3/4 interest and Penny Purchaser, a single woman, as to an undivided 1/4 interest, as tenants in common..
Other ways of vesting title include as:

[mmthomas]

What forms does Kansas law allow?