Jesse Williams (’20), Law Fellow, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law, was quoted by ABC News discussing how passage of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act in North Carolina would protect low-income property owners in heirs property disputes (“In North Carolina, a Proposed Law Could Help Families Protect Land Ownership,” Oct. 27). “Oftentimes, a developer will sort of work to get inside the family and use a court to force the sale of the land. The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act does a lot to curtail that. It would really change the game in terms of protecting people’s land in the state,” Jesse said. “One of the biggest things is that unlike virtually every state in the Southeast, including all of its neighboring states, North Carolina has yet to pass the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA). It’s passed bipartisanly all over the country, and it does a lot to protect heirs property owners, to protect Black family land, to protect land owned by low-income folks across North Carolina.”
