No entirety, express language required
Alabama does not recognize tenancy by the entirety — a deed to a husband and wife creates a tenancy in common by default, the same as it would for any other co-owners. Under Ala. Code § 35-4-7, survivorship has to be expressly created through joint tenancy language. See our full breakdown of Alabama joint tenancy rules, including a landmark 1972 case that reversed eight years of confusion over how joint tenancies could be broken.
No transfer-on-death deed, no Lady Bird deed statute
Alabama has never adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act. A 2016 bill that would have created one died in the House Judiciary Committee, and no subsequent TOD-deed bill has advanced. Alabama also has no statute authorizing a Lady Bird deed. See our full explanation of Alabama's TOD-deed gap and the alternatives owners actually use.
Bank accounts follow the state's Multiple-Person Accounts Act
Alabama's version of the Uniform Multiple-Person Accounts Act governs both how a joint account is owned while its parties are alive and how it passes at death. See our guide to Alabama beneficiary and P.O.D. accounts.
Where this feeds into other Alabama calculators
The probate-estate total from this tool is the starting point for Alabama's probate cost and executor fee calculators, and for checking Alabama's small estate procedures. Alabama has no state estate or inheritance tax, so this total doesn't feed into a separate state tax calculation.