YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Youngstown’s Board of Controls approved $125,000 in an agreement with the Mahoning County Land Bank to provide assistance to people facing heir property issues. The program ...

If “housing is everything,” as Susan O'Donovan, a University of Memphis professor who researches the lives of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War put it, Black Americans are way behind. In ...

Heirs’ property is usually defined as land handed down without clear, official documentation. Over the course of the 20th century, Black Americans lost roughly 80% of the property they owned at the ...

Funds to Support Clients With Legal Assistance and Consumer Education LAKE CHARLES, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) has awarded a $75,000 Heirs’ Property ...

Homeownership is the single greatest contributor to household wealth for American families. From 2010 to 2020, the value of owner-occupied housing in 917 metropolitan or micropolitan metro areas ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JPMorgan Chase is expanding its commitment to tackle heirs property challenges across the country through a combined expansion of philanthropic capital, business investments ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (the Heirs Act) was originally enacted in New York in December 2019 to protect heirs of real property from being forced to sell their property at auction.

The Reels brothers were held in contempt of court in a dispute over family land. A large portion of land in North Carolina and other states in the South has been passed down informally, making that ...

The farmland of North Carolina cradles not only agricultural abundance but also a significant legal challenge: heirs property (also commonly known as "heirs' property" or "heir property"). This ...

In heir property situations, the heirs have often moved far away, do not even know one another, and may not even realize they have co-ownership in a property. "Once this thing has spread out to two or ...

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