My grandmother died on January 1, 2012 at age 100. She had two children, my uncle and my mom. Mom was already living in the house with Grandma, and my uncle lives in another state. The farm was originally 13 acres, but Unk bought 2 acres from grandma a few years back.
The will stipulates that both Mom and Unk were to be co-administrators of the estate. The will specified that Unk and Mom were to share ownership of the remaining part of the farm...with the exception that Mom got the house.
From the get-go, it's been hard for the two of them to get along; having equal ownership of the farm just made that part worse. Mom kept bringing up the "which half is mine?" question for months afterward, until we finally sat her down and told her that, like it or not, she and Unk would have to jointly share the whole farm...and that NEITHER could tell the other what will--or "ought to be" done with the farm. Unk still tries to boss Mom around about the place, and there are a lot of hard feelings between them. Neither has the resources individually to buy the other out, and both are over 80, so financing such a deal would also be "iffy," at best.
But it certainly showed me what NOT to include in my will. Shared ownership creates problems, because people are human.
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