Brian Carter helped the firm’s clients negotiate and consummate a sale of a family ranch on the Mendocino coast, which ranch had been in the clients’ family for generations and had been bequeathed to several siblings upon the death of the parents. Such an arrangement is very common, but, unfortunately, so are disputes and divergent interests among the inheriting siblings (and their children). Some of the siblings will invariably want to keep the family’s property, while others, for a variety of reasons, prefer to ‘cash out.’ These divergent interests and needs invariably result in conflict between siblings and put the family’s bonds to the test. Mr. Carter helped one of the siblings and her spouse negotiate through the thicket (including threats of a partition lawsuit and other rancor) to reach an agreement that resulted in a sale at a price that was acceptable to all concerned. Parents who decide to leave their residence and/or other property to the ‘kids’ and let them sort it out sometimes do the survivors a disservice, and produce an unsustainable situation that more often than not pushes the siblings apart or strains their relationship. A wiser approach in many instances may be for the parent or parents to address and discuss the situation head on when they are still alive and cogent, to reach an understanding and an estate plan that everyone agrees upon in advance, thereby avoiding tension and conflict after they are gone. This of course if not possible in all cases, but one need only go through one or two of these post-inheritance disputes among sibling co-tenants in their parents’ property to appreciate the wisdom of at least attempting to deal with the relevant issues in advance.