It may be that your property was held under “joint tenancy”, meaning that your partner prepared a Will which indicated that it would automatically pass to you in the event of their death. Alternatively, you may have simply been named as the beneficiary of the property in a Will, or perhaps the property was owned as a “tenancy in common”, in which case you may again have been named as the beneficiary in the deceased’s Will or have been nominated as such in accordance with the laws of intestacy, if no Will was prepared.
