A Solution For Common Inheritance Disagreements

Many of us who work with estates, heirs and beneficiaries; supplying members of estates with various financial services, loans or cash advance services mainly — frequently see a large number of estates with family problems, typically surfacing in the form of one or more heirs attempting to get more than their fair share of inherited assets, in any number of various illicit or unethical ways.

We see co-heirs insisting they should be receiving a higher percentage of inherited property, or more from a cash account than was apparently written into the will.  We frequently identify conspiracies within estates experiencing problem like this; often between brothers, to illicitly remove inherited assets from another heir, often a vulnerable, formerly trusting sister, more often than we’d like to see.

We often see siblings hiring their own lawyers to ward off siblings that are attempting to receive a larger amount of inherited assets than their fair share.  A pricey but necessary expense. In short, this is a rarely reported problem of inheritance pilfering that, if successful, can cost victimized beneficiaries or heirs a great deal.

We can assume these situations reflect families that tend to not get along very well, and yet you hear time and time again that these siblings got along very well until a parent passes away and inheritance cash became an issue. 

Beneficiaries waiting for an inheritance often claim they got along well with their siblings until a cash inheritance materialized, and then squabbling began and grew into a genuinely heated conflict; with heirs blatantly attempting to help themselves to inherited assets reportedly belonging to other heirs.

This is where a popular solution to estate problems between siblings is introduced — to simply buyout problematic siblings, for  far more than an ordinary buyer would be likely to offer.  As most of us know by now, this involves a loan to an irrevocable trust from a trust lender; used in concert with Proposition 19, formerly with Proposition 58. 

This often initiated by one heir who wishes to keep their parent’s home in the family, while buying out property shares being inherited by frequently unwanted co-beneficiaries with a large  loan to an irrevocable trust… Heirs looking to keep their parents property generally try to get in under the wire, or seek legal counsel, to take advantage of property tax transfer, their right to transfer parents property taxes, and keep parents property taxes.  Inheriting property taxes through a parent to child property tax transfer child transfer and parent-child exclusion, to avoid property tax reassessment.

This process generally involves a fairly large 6-figure to 7-figure loan to an irrevocable trust, in conjunction with a parent-to-child exclusion (from property tax reassessment at current or fair market rates) – providing enough cash to create an equal trust distribution to all beneficiaries being bought out.