My mom and her 3 sisters inherited 1.15 acre parcel of land intestate in Chesterfield County, VA. She wants to initiate partition suit to get her piece of the land. Should she have the land surveyed and appraised first to see if pursuing the partition suit is cost effective?
Answer
Partition suits which are normally filed and litigated
in circuit courts in the jurisdiction where the land at issue is located can be expensive propositions, and, your mom can
probably find a cheaper way that the one suggested to determine
what her share of the proceeds might be from a judicially-ordered
sale of this property, but if it's so-called "raw", i.e.,undeveloped
land, when she factors in the cost of paying for the partition suit,
it may not be worth it.
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