Leutgers v. Kasten

Defendant, Cora T. Kasten, appeals from a district court judgment determining that an earlier judgment of divorce severed the joint tenancy estate by which defendant and Glen P. Kasten, her former husband now deceased, had held title to certain farmlands during their marriage. The dispositive issue presented is whether a stipulation incorporated into a judgment of divorce awarding the wife “one-half interest in the real estate” effectuates, by mutual agreement, a severance of the divorced parties’ previous joint tenancy ownership of the real estate. We hold that a severance resulted and…