KRS 381.050: Estate created by conveyance to husband and wife -- Will not to defeat

right to the entirety by survivorship.

(1) If real estate is conveyed or devised to husband and wife, unless a right by

survivorship is expressly provided for, there shall be no mu tual right to the entirety

by survivorship between them, but they shall take as tenants in common, and the

respective moieties shall be subject to the respective rights of the husband or wife as

fixed in KRS Chapter 392, with all other incidents to such tenancy.

(2) Where a conveyance or devise expressly creates a mutual right to the entirety by

survivorship in real estate between a husband and wife, no provision of the will of

the husband or wife shall be construed to defeat such right to the entirety by

survivorship of the surviving spouse.