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Family Cottage Estate Planning: How to Treat Your Children Equally

Videos By Jillian C. Bowman  |  September 4, 2026


Should one child inherit the family cottage, or should every beneficiary receive an equal share of the estate?

Wills and Estates lawyer Jillian Bowman discusses two estate-planning options: balancing the cottage’s value against other estate assets and including a right of first refusal that allows a beneficiary to purchase the property from the estate.