To the young guys- inheritance
kb ag
Posted 2/19/2026 16:15 (#11557534 - in reply to #11557512)
Subject: RE: To the young guys- inheritance


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Big Ben - 2/19/2026 14:59

Chief Illiniwek - 2/19/2026 12:07

Another thread down the page had me thinking and wanting to say something to the young guys who are nearing marriage/starting families. Just some food for thought for those guys.

If you expect to own a significant amount of acres in a farm someday, you’ve got a sacrifice to make and you need to make the decision now, and there’s no getting out of sacrificing something. You can

1: sacrifice the viability of your family farm by having lots of kids and splitting the acreage between them at your death

2: potentially sacrifice a living, cohesive family by splitting your estate in less than an exactly equal way

3: sacrifice the joy of having multiple kids, but this allows you to give the whole farm to one child and keep the family farm whole


There’s no perfect solution, but I thought spelling it out to young guys now at least gets them thinking about what choices may need to be made later.



About number 2:
If your family requires everything to be exactly equal to stay cohesive, they were never cohesive in the first place.

An “exactly equal way” is fiction anyway.






+1000 The biggest trouble with inheritance comes from raising a crappy family to start with. Some people don't have the balls to talk about their own death in a constructive way in order to structure stuff the way it should be structured. I would say the same people never had the balls to nurture their children into having great values and love for one another. The problems don't start at inheritance time...they started 60 years earlier.

Edited by kb ag 2/19/2026 16:19
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