Picture of TV Character, Gomer Pyle
"Ill-gotten gains!"
Edgar and Betty, husband and wife, own Blackacre as Joint Tenants
Betty "shot and killed" Edgar
Betty then purports to convey a FSA in Blackacre to her father, William Duncan ("Uncle Billy")
Edgar's father, as administrator of his son's intestate estate, sues claiming a one-half interest in the property.
Who owns Blackacre?
See p. 415, the Oklahoma "slayer statute."
Does this statute apply to survivorship rights under a Joint Tenancy?
Nevertheless, the court holds that "the murder here involved was inconsistent with the continued existence of the joint tenancy and that at the time the murder was committed, the joint tenancy was terminated and separated." p. 416
Do you agree that when one joint tenant murders the other that is conduct that evidences an intention to no longer hold the property in joint tenancy? What about an unsuccessful attempt to murder one's fellow joint tenant?
