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      I Just Found Out That a Loved One Put Me on the Deed to Their House – Can I still File Bankruptcy?

      Posted by James Jensen-Kowski on October 2

      In recent years, it has become increasingly common for parents, grandparents or others who may be going through the process of estate planning to add the names of loved ones to the deed of a home or other parcel of real estate which they intend to leave to them one day.  This may be done for a variety of reasons, but most typically takes place for the purpose of simplifying the transfer of the property after the passing of the person that it originally belonged to.  However, adding the name of a loved one to a deed also inherently changes the ownership status of the property; rather than the property passing to the heir upon the death of the person who originally owned it, it now instead belongs to both the grantor and heir jointly at the time that the new name is added to the deed.

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