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Anyone familiar with maritime law?
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On 5 Feb 2004 10:53:30 -0800, (Curtis CCR) wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in message . .. On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:00:28 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:50:31 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote: "Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message news:FQ8Ub.19239$u_6.9131@lakeread04... Here is an alternative, though risky alternative. The covenants of the will/bequest are very powerful. (See my reply to Larry.) Form a non-profit community organization. Find some heirs to the estate and feel them out about contesting the city's right of posession and donating the land to the organization. I believe that when they donate the land they get a tax deduction equal to the current value of the land less the value of the original bequest. He may also want to contact the Nature Conservancy, which acquires land that's about to be made ugly in various ways. They often find ways to lock it up legally so it REALLY can't be used for disgusting purposes, like tree-less housing developments. www.nature.org They may already have their eye on the specific land anyway - it's worth making inquiries. Good advice, but be very carefull with these folks - they can be a real handfull to deal with. You mean the Nature Conservancy? Yep - it's a long story - basically, I wanted to put my forest and meadow property in a long term trust agreement, but the language in the agreement was such that I would have lost access to my own land while I was still alive and kicking. I'm not saying they don't do good work and maybe it was just the folks I was dealing with, but I never went back to them after that. I worked an open land deal with the state instead. I worked with an organization that was a lot like the nature conservancy (only smaller) on a project to remediate a telecom site we had in a state park. During the project, they were talking about trying to work a deal with a local archery club that owned some adjacent property. The club wouldn't sell the land, but the conservation group talked about getting a "conservation easement" ( I think that was the term ). The organization would not buy the land, but pay the archery club to agree not to do anything else to the land for the term of easement. They could still use the land, but the easement meant the club couldn't do ANYTHING to it - it even put limits on the future maintenance of some improvements the club had already made. This was several years ago and it didn't look like such a deal was even close - I don't know what has happened since. That's pretty much what happened to me with the caveat that the land was to have "restricted access" - I asked what "restricted" meant and it was pretty drastic even to the point of I couldn't hunt on my own land or fish in my own pond. Sorry - that dog won't howl. Later, Tom S. Woodstock, CT ---------- "To the fisherman born there is nothing so provoking of curiosity as a fishing rod in a case." Roland Pertwee, "The River God" (1928) |
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