Taxes Wv.

Anyone out there who has found a way to collect taxes from every heir to a tract?  Since there is only one tax ticket for the tract and many heirs, is there a way to get everyone to pay.  This is a real problem and to have your share put in your name, takes a lot of time and attorney fees.  Contacting an heir you may not know and asking them to pay their share of taxes sounds good until they ignore you.  They didn't shy away when the company paid them money to sign though.

The courthouse will not dig into the books and separate the interests and send out each heir a tax ticket.  They only go on the name on the ticket.  Most cases that is a grandpa or grandma and the interests were not put in each siblings name when they passed away.  When this happens, it's like a family tree and the interests splits and more people own a piece. When it comes time to pay taxes whomever has the ticket has to make sure the taxes are paid or they go delinquent.

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Permalink Reply by D L T on September 8, 2016 at 6:55am

Ron

After several heirs throwing us under the bus that would be fitting.  Couple of them even accepted money so Antero could file a partition suit against others. 

Permalink Reply by Kyle Nuttall on September 12, 2016 at 7:28am

What I've done for some of my clients is do the title research to get back to the owner who is on the tax records, then write a letter to the Assessor showing the research.  That's usually enough to get them to split that person's interest out as a separate interest.  Sometimes it's a lot simpler than that, sometimes it takes more work than that.

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