As of June 2025, a new federal law passed that will prohibit children from inheriting their deceased parents' houses beginning in January 2026. Rating: False (About this rating?) In June 2025, a claim ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - You may be the heir apparent to the family home, but if your relative died without a will or there was never a succession, you may not officially be the owner. Some people ...

Across the US, heirs’ property laws hamstring families that want to build housing or leverage their land for loans. One Alabama project shows how policy reform and savvy design can build a way forward ...

If “housing is everything,” as Susan O'Donovan, a University of Memphis professor who researches the lives of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War put it, Black Americans are way behind. In ...