Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 02.02 EST Q If my brother and father own a house and my father dies, what happens to his share? KI A Thank you for such a succinct question to which there is not such a succinct answer. A lot depends on how your brother and father own the property. If they are what are called joint tenants, if your father died, the whole property would automatically go to your brother. For this not to happen, either your father or brother would need to sever the joint tenancy while bother were still alive by serving a written “notice of severance” on the other. Doing so would make them “tenants in common” instead, which means that your brother would not automatically get your father’s share on his death.