The Robbins Family from Mississippi Discuss their Heirs' Property Issues

The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation™ and the Mississippi Center for Justice announced on October 14th, the Mobile Basin Heirs’ Property Support Initiative, a two-year program designed to help historically underserved families in Mississippi protect and keep their forestland; build generational wealth; and promote productive, sustainably managed forests. With support from World Wildlife Fund and Kimberly-Clark, the new initiative provides a combination of legal services, information, and assistance accessing financial resources to help Mississippians resolve land title issues that disproportionately affect Black families and often lead to loss of land, wealth, and forest resources. This video, in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Justice, was produced for this event. It tells the story of the Robbins siblings. They discuss the heirs' property issue that is preventing them from developing their family land. Also featured is Mr. Frank Taylor of the Winston County Self-Help Cooperative, an organization dedicated to helping families like the Robbins maintain their land. The Mobile Basin Heirs’ Property Support Initiative will help families like the Robbins keep their land for future generations. (Photo Credit: Mississippi Center for Justice)

[@user-fy2ro7ie5e]

I’m 33 have heard my grand parents talk about land in Mississippi that was passed on to my grandparents and when my grandmother passed three years ago my mother and aunts are the new heirs however my cousins and realize how valuable land ownership can be to our families future generations my mom and aunts have no intentions of moving to Mississippi to tend to the properties. We are trying to figure out what we can also do to make sure we keep this land in the family’s and protect it in the future.

[@chrisst.1495]

I'm just now learning about this stuff, I am so blown away that this even happens like this... Keep up the work of bringing this up and educating our people ❤️

[@jesusisrealjesusislord8159]

Lord have mercy

[@patriciasmith9930]

Excellent Knowledge Thank you so much.

[@SmokeyA55]

Amen you don’t sake your land you hold on to it 🦾💯

[@infalliblekingbrooks1700]

Sad part about this video is that they still haven’t learned from this. They are still talking about passing it to future generations as heir property. The only way to be safe from heir property is to go through probate and divide the land through individual deeds. The black community is always concerned about not selling so leaving it as heirs. As long as it’s heirs outside children great grands on so on you never heard of can come in and claim entitlement and lawfully thu are entitled. 19 brothers and sisters in Mississippi how many grandchildren and outside children do you think they have circulating around the US? Better get that land deeded out. Only thing you can do is pass it down you can’t worry if future generations will sell it or not it’s their decision at that point. If you teach them to have value in it maybe they won’t. He is property is the quickest way to lose you land in the US.

[@wallacedavis3110]

One day

[@abcdefghi9]

Heirs property should be ran according to a percentage ownership basis on acerage if someone owns 1 acre out of 100 acres thats 1 percent. 51 percent majority has the say.