Cindy:
Someone will always have to pay taxes on it.
If she gives it away today with living rights till death, then you and your other family members will have to declare it as a gift and pay gift taxes on it....By April 15th 2001.... no excuses..!!!!!
If she sells it to you at market rates, then SHE pays whatever capital gains taxes there are.
We did that to our parents home of $240,000 split 3 ways and the taxes were $27,000 split 3 ways or $9,000 each.....pretty damn reasonable to own 1/3 of a 2 family house dont cha think!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Cindy T.:
My elderly mother insists that it is *illegal* to give the property (29 acres, house, small lake and 2 outbuildings in Alabama) that she is currently living on to any/all of her children, that it must be sold to the children at a fair market value.
This sounds odd to me. Is this true?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>