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In South Carolina, the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation has offered legal education and direct legal services for families that want to hold on to their generational land. Families most ...
Heirs’ property is under threat throughout the Black Belt. ... A private Charleston-based company has plans for several dozen houses in the center of the neighborhood, spreading closer to the 35 ...
Heirs property, or heirs' property, refers to property that is passed between generations of family members without the involvement of local probate courts, without a will or formal estate strategy. [1] Heir property is commonly viewed as an unstable form of ownership, since co-owners often have limited rights over the property. [2]
DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A family in Dorchester County hopes they will not lose a piece of property that has been in the family for decades. The property, located off a dirt road along ...
Walden estimates about 40,000 tracts remain held in heirs’ property across six coastal counties alone. The clamor for these lands is so feverish that even people with clear titles are vulnerable.
The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA), completed by the Uniform Law Commission in 2010, contains legal protections for heirs’ property owners designed to address partition sales. The UPHPA restructures the way partition sales occur in states that adopt the act, and generally includes three major reforms to partition law: [ 9 ]
While heirs’ property is predominant among African American landholders in the South and has been a significant driver of African American land loss in the United States, it is also an issue for Latinx communities in the Southwest, Indigenous communities on reservations, and white communities in Appalachia. Through this two-part program, we ...
“We’re really leaning into heirs’ property as a way to prop up family wealth creation,” said Irvin Cohen, who heads the group organizing the push-back. “On the other end of the pendulum ...