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Whose Land Is It Anyway? Heirs’ Property and Its Impact on Underserved Communities
By: Brenda Ezell, Esq., Jacksonville, Member of The Fund
By now we have all heard the term “heirs’ property,” particularly since Florida’s enactment of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (the “Act”) which became effective on July 1, 2020. This article is not a discussion of the Act, as a very thorough analysis was authored by Jalinda Davis, Senior Fund Underwriting Counsel at Attorneys’ Title Fund Services, LLC, and can be located in the November 2021 edition of The Fund Concept. Rather, this article is meant to serve as an analysis of the issues compelling passage of the Act and my own practical introduction to these issues.
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