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1. The family needs an attorney, who will be paid with the proceeds of the inheritance. Make sure he or she is honest.

2. The attorney will calculate how much debt there is, and whether it can be paid off with land sale or house sale or both. This is an important consideration given they are willed to different people! [b]It's likely that both will have to be sold to make things fair, in which case DD1 will have to live elsewhere.[/b]

3. There will be no child support. That family has to apply for government assistance.

4. Gird yourself up for conflict. My family had 25 years of court battles over my grandfather's will, and it split the family permanently, I'm sorry to say.
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If you brought this kind logic and critical thinking to your familial conflict I think I understand why you had so much conflict in your family. The will wasn’t drafted to be fair. It was drafted to give the caretaking child a place to live. [/quote]

PP you replied to. *I* did not recommend selling anything - I was 5! :-) The judge decided.

But I see it coming a mile away, PP. There is only child who gets the house, and her 3 siblings get the land. Do you think they will accept reducing their portion to pay debts and the lawyer, while she gets nothing reduced? Seeing as there is conflict already, I highly doubt it. One way to resolve the impasse is to sell everything and divide the proceeds equally after paying off debts/fees, regardless of the life situation of the beneficiaries. If this is taken to court, this is what is likely to happen. It happened in my family's case.

Take the emotion out of it, people. Otherwise you're in for years of pain. 
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