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Family relationships can get very complicated about the most inane things.  My folks just had to clear out two condos.  The one closet to where five of seven siblings live, my folks just put out the fine china sets, sterling, crystal on the dining room table and said who ever could take whatever.

On lovely things that a child might have given to the folks over the years such as fine a painting, it was understood that those would return to the sibling.

Other ways to handle future sharing of family heirlooms as we have some through family - not that valuable, but more sentimental is to develop a list ahead of time of what each sibling or possibly other close relatives might like and have it with your papers.  Or as in the case of my Mom's jewelry do it on a lottery system perhaps restricted as it is for this to her daughters.  The idea of a lottery is that as your random opportunity came up you got to make a choice with no hard feelings of a parent having selected something special for one that another coveted.  In the process one could always "trade."

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