What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania
Well grandmother dies and states in the will that everything is to be split evenly amongst her children, that is all. Most of the children live directly beside the land to be split, so a select few want to carve the land up. The problem is that these few have very nice fields beside their property and the rest of those beside the property have only swampy land that is not worth much at all. The executer (also an heir and also one who wants land) has made it clear that it’d end up in court should we want otherwise. My question is simple, if a few want the entire thing to be sold and the money split (or our parts bought for the appraised price) does that not mean that’s what must happen?
We have made it clear that we will not accept land, we want the value of the property. What options do we have to go about getting our fair cut? I say this because it is painfully obvious that the executer is looking out after their own interests (IE stalling the entire process while her child lives in the house rent free, dodging questions about the estate… responding with “Ohh, I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you.”, etc)
I was under the impression that if even one party is not happy with the way they plan to split property, the entire thing is liquidated and the funds split. Another thing we worry about is them claiming the land they want as their share, and then trying to sell the left over, practically valueless land for the rest of us to split.
So can they force us to take land? If not, do we have to work this out with them, or can we just go over their head and force the courts to sell/split the assets?
Thanks for any help given, we are getting desperate.
Well grandmother dies and states in the will that everything is to be split evenly amongst her children, that is all. Most of the children live directly beside the land to be split, so a select few want to carve the land up. The problem is that these few have very nice fields beside their property and the rest of those beside the property have only swampy land that is not worth much at all. The executer (also an heir and also one who wants land) has made it clear that it’d end up in court should we want otherwise. My question is simple, if a few want the entire thing to be sold and the money split (or our parts bought for the appraised price) does that not mean that’s what must happen?
We have made it clear that we will not accept land, we want the value of the property. What options do we have to go about getting our fair cut? I say this because it is painfully obvious that the executer is looking out after their own interests (IE stalling the entire process while her child lives in the house rent free, dodging questions about the estate… responding with “Ohh, I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you.”, etc)
I was under the impression that if even one party is not happy with the way they plan to split property, the entire thing is liquidated and the funds split. Another thing we worry about is them claiming the land they want as their share, and then trying to sell the left over, practically valueless land for the rest of us to split.
So can they force us to take land? If not, do we have to work this out with them, or can we just go over their head and force the courts to sell/split the assets?
Thanks for any help given, we are getting desperate.
