NSW Can a sale or transfer of Joint title owners interest for fee simple be registered after death of the registered Joint Tenant owner?

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Vicki21

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6 May 2021
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What happens if after seperation a Joint Tenant Owner don’t sever the tenancy or register a transfer and offers his interest to former partner/other joint tenant for final property settlement - but then dies and then a family member says after death that the Joint Tenant signed a Contract of Sale to them for fee simple two days prior to him dying and then based on this put a caveat on the title preventing the other joint tenant from registering a Notice of Death? I’m in NSW. I have put in a lapsing notice but then they withdraw the caveat and same day out very similar one in but this time only list the affected registered proprietor affected as the deceased joint tenant owner which then land titles would not provide notice of the caveat being in place and only way to know about this new caveat was by paying for CT searches regularly to check second schedule. Can the son register the transfer/sale now that joint tenant owner has died and while they have a caveat in place preventing registration of notice of Death?