Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 244

244 Death of a cotenant

(1) This section applies if—

(a) there are cotenants under an agreement; and

(b) the cotenants are not stated under the agreement to be joint tenants; and

(c) 1 of the cotenants dies.

(2) On the deceased’s death—

(a) the deceased’s interest in the tenancy ends; and

(b) the agreement continues in force with the parties to the agreement being the lessor and the other cotenant or cotenants.

(3) Subsection (2) does not affect, as between the deceased and the other cotenant or cotenants, any right (including, in particular, a right relating to a rental bond) or liability of the deceased existing immediately before the deceased’s death.