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Family Land and Succession Back Home

Family land back home put in order: papers found, heirs mapped, title checked, probate or letters of administration seen through, costs shared and decisions agreed without breaking the family.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Family Land and Succession Back Home, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own affairs. It is not legal advice. Rules differ between countries and change often, so check decisions that matter with a qualified lawyer or the official authority in the country concerned.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Family Land and Succession Back Home

Sorting out family land in the Caribbean: who has a claim, deeds and title, probate and letters of administration, and keeping the peace among relatives.

  1. Family land fact sheet on one page
  2. Old deeds, receipts and land papers gathered
  3. Map of heirs and who has a claim
  4. Certificates proving the chain of heirs
  5. Title search on the family land
  6. Property tax status and arrears check
  7. Choosing a land and estates lawyer back home
  8. Shared vault for land papers and scans
  9. Elders' account of the land recorded
  10. First family call about the land
  11. Yearly property tax payment and receipts
  12. Family land fund for shared costs
  13. Caretaker on the ground and a monthly call
  14. Quarterly update to every heir
  15. Monthly chase of the lawyer and registry
  16. Yearly bushing and boundary upkeep
  17. Rent and occupancy record for the family house
  18. Insurance on the family house
  19. Squatting and encroachment watch
  20. Land title words in your home country
  21. How intestacy rules share land in your home country
  22. Probate and letters of administration explained
  23. Reading a survey plan and finding boundary marks
  24. Possession and prescriptive title basics
  25. Family land customs across the Caribbean
  26. Power of attorney for a trusted person back home
  27. Letters of administration for a parent's estate
  28. Grant of probate where a will exists
  29. Transferring the land into the heirs' names
  30. Fresh survey and boundary plan
  31. Independent valuation of the family land
  32. Keep, sell, share or divide decision
  33. Written family land agreement
  34. Agreeing who may build on the family land
  35. Buying out a relative's share
  36. Selling family land with every heir's consent
  37. Walking the land on the next trip home
  38. Mediation for a family land disagreement
  39. Signing day for the transfer documents
  40. Preparing for a court or tribunal hearing on the land
  41. Handing the land papers to the next generation
  42. Relative living on the land and keeping it up
  43. Administrator or executor living abroad
  44. Heirs abroad who have never seen the land
  45. Widowed parent's home on family land
  46. Returning to build a retirement home on family land
  47. Untangling land still in a great-grandparent's name
  48. Quieting or regularising title to long-held land
  49. Partition and subdivision into heirs' lots
  50. Holding family land through a trust or company

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Family land fact sheet on one page

Ask five relatives where the family land is, how big it is and whose name is on it, and you may get five answers. A single page with the parcel's district, rough size, any deed or title number, who lives on it and what has been paid recently gives everyone the same starting point and shows at once what is still unknown.

First tasks

  • Write down everything you already know about the land in one sitting
  • Call the oldest relative who knows the land and fill in the location details
  • Ask the relative living nearest the land who occupies it now
  • Mark every unknown item and share the sheet with one sibling or cousin

Old deeds, receipts and land papers gathered

In many families the only proof of ownership is a folded deed, a survey plan and a bundle of tax receipts kept in a grandmother's Bible, a grip (an old suitcase) or a biscuit tin. Finding these before a house is cleared out, a roof leaks or an elder passes can save years of searching and a great deal in legal fees.

First tasks

  • List every relative who might hold land papers and how to reach them
  • Ask the relative in the family house to search drawers, trunks and Bibles
  • Photograph each document flat, in daylight, on both sides
  • Agree with the family who keeps the originals and where

Map of heirs and who has a claim

When land passes without a will, the people with a share are fixed by law and by who has died since, not by who lives closest or cares most. Drawing the line of heirs from the person named on the deed down to today's living relatives shows how many people must be found, consulted and eventually sign, which is often far more than the family expects.

First tasks

  • Start the map with the person whose name is on the deed or title
  • Add each child and the date of any death you know
  • Ask the agent to turn your notes into a clear branch-by-branch list
  • Send the draft map to two elders to check for missing children

Make it yours.

Install Family Land and Succession Back Home, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.