| If a cotenant cannot reach agreement with a fellow owner for any reason, he or she has the legal right to demand partition of the property. |
| As a result, many football teams no longer needed to share stadiums with a baseball cotenant and received their own stadiums as well. |
| A new law passed in Virginia requires that landlords install new locks or security devices on apartments rented by tenants who have a restraining order against a cotenant. |
| While New York law allows the holder of an order of protection to prematurely end a tenancy, that statute does not provide for the automatic removal of a cotenant from a lease, Ms. Cohen said. |
| Each cotenant in common has the right to access to the property. |
