Kai Hong Hom v. Hom

The plaintiff owned real property with his late wife. In 1988 they executed a deed purporting to transfer the premises to themselves and their son, the appellant Bill Hom (hereinafter the appellant), as joint tenants with the right of survivorship. The plaintiffs wife died two years later. In subsequent years, the plaintiff opened a bank account with Abacus Federal Savings Bank and a brokerage account with HSBC Brokerage, both of which were opened jointly in the names of the plaintiff and the appellant.

In 2006 the plaintiff commenced this action seeking, inter *817alia, a judgment declaring that…