Which of the following is NOT a form of concurrent estate?

• A. Fee Simple Absolute
• B. Tenancy in Common
• C. Joint Tenancy
• D. Tenancy by the Entirety

Answer: (A)

The key idea is concurrent ownership: multiple people hold rights to the same property at the same time, with each having a right to possess and use the whole property. The forms that describe such co-ownership—tenancy in common, joint tenancy, and tenancy by the entirety—spell out how the interests relate, including rights of survivorship and, in the case of tenancy by the entirety, marital requirements.

Fee simple absolute, by contrast, describes the broadest form of ownership in real property—the extent of the interest itself—rather than the relationship among multiple owners. It can be held by a single person, or by two or more people in a way that would typically be described as tenancy in common or another concurrent form if there are multiple owners. But as a concept, fee simple absolute is not a form of concurrent ownership; it’s the underlying estate type, while the concurrent forms specify how multiple owners relate to each other.