Consider two families, each dealing with the aftermath of a loved one's death. In the first family, a daughter spent years caring for her aging mother. She managed the finances, attended doctor's appointments, and sat with her through long nights of illness. Her mother had given her power of attorney. She was added to her mother's bank accounts to help pay the bills. She did everything out of love, without a second thought about legal consequences. Now, months after her mothe

A court once observed that "[f]ew things are as certain as death, taxes and the legal entanglement that follows [the conveyance] of landlocked real estate." Bob Daniels & Sons v. Weaver, 106 Idaho 535, 681 P.2d 1010, 1013 (Idaho Ct. App. 1984). That observation rings especially true in Southwest Virginia, where family land has passed through generations of deeds, conveyances, and divisions — often without careful attention to how access would be maintained for every resulting

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