EX PARTE MALONE

87-476.

543 So.2d 1190 (1988)

Ex parte O'Neal MALONE. (Re Frances Earline MALONE v. O'Neal MALONE).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Shelton, Decatur, for petitioner.

Sherrie G. Willman of Brown-Willman, Decatur, for respondent.


MADDOX, Justice.

This case presents once again the question of when and under what circumstances a joint tenancy, with right of survivorship, can be severed. The specific question is whether a divorce judgment ordering the immediate sale of jointly owned property, pursuant to a property settlement agreement, was effective to sever the joint tenancy.

Even though the court ordered the property sold immediately, it was not, and the former husband died before...

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