If you need help with heirs’ property or if you want to learn about managing your land for timber to provide increased income for your family, the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation is providing a FREE educational seminar in Manning for you to find out what you need to know.
The Center thanks the Harvin Clarendon County Library for hosting this FREE Education Seminar. All are welcome to attend. Come to the library at 215 N. Brooks Street in Manning on Saturday, March 16th from 10AM-Noon.
Learn how you can get a simple Will drafted, how estates are probated, the rights and risks of owning heirs’ property, and how to manage your forestland for more income and value.
What is heirs’ property?
In South Carolina, heirs’ property is mostly rural land owned by African-American families following emancipation. Much of this land was passed down through the generations without a Will, so it is owned “in common” by multiple family members. Land owned in this way is easily lost through forced sales in the courts.
Don’t wait for that to happen. Get help with your heirs’ property today! For more, go to: www.heirsproperty.org and take a look at our video at: http://mrbf.org/storybank/value-land
The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation has been protecting heirs’ property through legal education and direct legal services since 2005. In 2013, the Center began promoting the sustainable use of land through forestry education and services to provide increased economic benefit to low-wealth family land owners. The Center provides legal services and forestry services in Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Georgetown, Jasper, Orangeburg, Sumter and Williamsburg counties.
To date, the Center has provided 2,185 persons with free, one-hour “Advice and Counsel” (A&C) with 523 clients receiving direct legal services to clear title. A total of 875 simple wills have been drafted at free, community Wills Clinics; more than 451 families (who collectively own in excess of 30,000 acres) have benefited from various levels of education and expert resources to develop and implement sustainable forestry management plans, and 230 titles have been cleared on family land with a total tax-assessed value of $13.4 million. For more on the Center, go to: www.heirsproperty.org.
