Allowance of attorney fees out of unrepresented shares. In any partition suit when there are unrepresented shares, the court shall allow reasonable fees to the attorney or attorneys bringing the action on account of the services rendered to the parceners unrepresented by counsel of record.
Partition definition: it is defined as a room divider or wooden partition wall constructed from a sturdy material such as glass, bricks, or wood studs, whose sole purpose is to be a room divider and separate one room from another.
A partition deed is a legal document used to divide jointly-owned property among co-owners. It allows each owner to gain an individual and identifiable portion of the property. Partition deeds are commonly used when families or groups jointly own property and want to establish clear boundaries and ownership rights.
Virginia Boundary Fence Statute Virginia Code § 55.1-2821 states that adjoining landowners “shall build and maintain division fences between their lands, equally splitting the costs, unless one of them decided to let his land lie open or agree otherwise.”
As used in this subsection, "deed of distribution" means a deed conveying property from an estate or trust (i) to the original beneficiaries of a trust from the trustees holding title under a deed in trust; (ii) the purpose of which is to comply with a devise or bequest in the decedent's will or to transfer title to ...
Allowance of attorney fees out of unrepresented shares. In any partition suit when there are unrepresented shares, the court shall allow reasonable fees to the attorney or attorneys bringing the action on account of the services rendered to the parceners unrepresented by counsel of record.
When heirs' property is created, the heirs own all the property together (in legal terms, they own the property as “tenants in common”). In other words, they each own an interest in the undivided land rather than each heir owning an individual lot or piece of the land.