Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

Re: deeds

It used to be in Pennsylvania to create a fee simple transfer you used to have to say to the grantees and their heirs. If you didn't it was interpreted that the grantees got a life estate. That is the bought the property only for their life and when they died it reverted to the grantor.

The law now is that even if you don't add "and to their heirs" you create a fee simple.

A fee simple differs from a life estate as the holders of the fee simple can pass the property either by will or intestate succession (even without a will).

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{John}