43-2-13. Conveyance of interest in property to spouse--Joint tenancy created. Any deed, transfer, or assignment of real or personal property from husband to wife or from wife to husband which conveys an interest in the grantor's lands or personal property and by its terms evinces an intent on the part of the grantor to create a joint tenancy between grantor and grantee shall be held and construed to create such joint tenancy, and any husband and wife who are grantor and grantee in any such deed, transfer, or assignment heretofore given shall hold the property described in such deed, transfer, or assignment as joint tenants.
Source: SDC 1939, § 51.0212 as added by SL 1951, ch 255.
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