You can not, and the landlord can not agree to remove your name
from the joint tenancy.
Offering a conversion
from joint tenancy to «room - by - room» individual tenancies is likely the best way forward, and likely to be supported as a standard of tenancy by existing law anyway.
Not exact matches
[1] When a parent gives an adult child a
joint interest in real property during his or her lifetime, can that gift include an irrevocable right of survivorship that has the effect of preventing the parent
from later severing the
joint tenancy?
It was clear that the younger brother was only to have a minimal ownership stake in the house right
from the outset, despite the older brother having initially having contemplated putting the property in
joint tenancy, or letting the plaintiff claim the home owner grant.
If a court orders that a
tenancy has to be signed over
from one person (or
joint names) to another, the social landlord must abide by this.
You will normally have to get your ex-partner to agree to you changing the
tenancy from joint tenants to tenants in common.
A court can make an order to allocate the
tenancy (whether the home is rented
from a private landlord, housing association or council) to one of the
joint tenants.
Unlike
joint tenancy, however, under
tenancy by the entirety the home is more fully protected
from creditors.