Tenants by Entireties

A client presented today an interesting question which I can not answer with any certainty. The well-established rule under Florida case law is that tenants by entireties property (property owned jointly by husband and wife) is immune from creditors of either spouse individually, but the property is not protected from…

In the case of In re Shilo, Case No. 03-9358, Judge Jenneman issued an Memorandum Opinion which held that a car owned by married couple as husband or wife with rights of survivorship is not legally owned tenants by entireties and is not exempt from the husband’s individual creditors.