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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

-- On Sat, 7/25/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I really don't want my land to go to the highest seller
> when I'm dead. I'd
> rather it go to someone who wants to homestead it and
> continue my work. I
> really don't care whether it goes to family, I'd prefer
> them, but rather it
> go to someone that will care for it.
> 
> What I do not want to happen is for this place to get sold
> off to the
> highest bidder and a bunch of groveling nieces and nephews
> walking off with
> their loot.
> 
> I'm interested in what other's plans are for passing on
> their homestead when
> they die.
> 
> Rob - Va




I'm putting my land in a living trust.  After I die my sons will become the 
trustees.  One son will be living on the land and so it is possible that the 
land will stay in his line.  Though I'm hoping that I will have 30 years yet 
to rethink, depending on what the grand kids are interested in.
Van Dell