Grigsby v. Lloyds Bank California

Opinion

DALSIMER, J.

This appeal presents but one issue: Can one spouse unilaterally terminate a joint tenancy in property that has been declared by both spouses to be their homestead?

Waymond Grigsby (respondent) obtained a. judgment from the probate court which adjudged that certain real property, the subject of this appeal, was joint tenancy property of respondent and his deceased wife, Carolyn Joyce Grigsby (decedent), that the joint tenancy was terminat*614ed upon decedent’s death, and that the property became vested in respondent as a surviving joint tenant.

Both parties agree to the underlying…