My stepfather’s children told me they plan to buy the house he shares with my mother. I stopped them in their tracks.

“I discovered that the default deed in Illinois is tenants in common — not joint tenants with the right of survivorship.”

My stepfather’s children told me they plan to buy the house he shares with my mother. I stopped them in their tracks.
“I discovered that the default deed in Illinois is tenants in common — not joint tenants with the right of survivorship.”