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Avoid family fights over farm wills with these land transfer tips
If you’re among the 80 per cent of farmers leaving some land to non-farming children, Merle Good has some creative land transfer advice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Merle Good has one piece of advice for farmers who are drawing up their wills: “If you’re going to leave land to a non-farming child, get creative.” Thirty years ago, “hardly any land went to a non-farming child,” said Good, a longtime tax specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development who now runs a private […] Read more