Oklahoma, like many other states, is a joint tenancy state. We own what we own along with our significant others.
In the preparation of the multitude of legal documents I prepare each month I have, from time to time, used the term et ux. when naming property owners. I usually only do so in a perpetuatory manner. I really don't care whether the estate is held as joint tenants or tenant in common.
Anyway, a client asked me (after a number of years of wondering) what it meant. I explained and I could hear his eyes glazing over as I spoke over the phone.
After a little looking I found this article by a Kristin Collins, Terms of Art. And although the article is 12 years old, it is still a good explanation.
I emailed it to my client with glazed-over eyes...:snarky:
Not sure the article would cause any un-glazing.
I haven't researched the cited case, but it seems to me that justice would have required the couple to show how lack of specific notice in the wife's name caused her to not know about the tax sale, rather than just saying that the notice wasn't good enough on the face of it. Otherwise, the court just created a new and unneeded loophole.
